. The Street railway journal . s for air-brake appliances; a fire protection servicefor the terminal buildings; a pumping plant for disposingof water which may find its way into the portions of theterminal situated below tide water;—all these depend uponthe general power plant, which is located on the Dorches-ter Avenue side of the building. The building devoted tothis purpose is 460 ft. long and 40 ft. wide. A general contract for practically the entire engineeringand power equipment of the terminal was placed by theTerminal Company with Westinghouse, Church, Kerr &Co., who have in turn suble
. The Street railway journal . s for air-brake appliances; a fire protection servicefor the terminal buildings; a pumping plant for disposingof water which may find its way into the portions of theterminal situated below tide water;—all these depend uponthe general power plant, which is located on the Dorches-ter Avenue side of the building. The building devoted tothis purpose is 460 ft. long and 40 ft. wide. A general contract for practically the entire engineeringand power equipment of the terminal was placed by theTerminal Company with Westinghouse, Church, Kerr &Co., who have in turn sublet contracts for all the detail ap-pliances not manufactured by themselves. The entire-equipment is as follows: There are ten horizontal tubular boilers, built by & Sons, of Cambridgeport, Mass., each 72 ins. indiameter x 18 ft. long, with 130 3-in. tubes. Each boiler isequipped with Ronev mechanical stokers operated by twostandard Westinghouse engines. There are two economizers (if the Westing-house steam. FIG. SECTION, NEW SOUTH TERMINAL circulating pattern, manufactured by the Fuel EconomizerCompany, of Matteawan, N. Y. There is no chimney to the plant, but forced draft isused and is supplied by two blast wheels 14 ft. in diameterx 7 ins. wide, designed by Westinghouse, Church, Kerr& Co. In the engine room are four Westinghouseautomatic compound condensing engines, each direct con-nected to a Westinghouse 8-pole, 220-volt direct currentdynamo of a peculiar type, each dynamo being capable ofgenerating a 220-volt current for power purposes and auo-volt current for arc and incandescent lighting, bothcurrents being deliverable in any desired proportion fromthe same machine. The heating of cars waiting jn the train shed in coldweather when the locomotive is detached is provided forby a complete system of steam mains leading to the ends 162 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XV., No. 3. of the stub tracks, steam at boiler pressure being passedthrough a
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