. Electric railway gazette . se ofemergency. 136 ELECTRIC RAILWAY GAZETTE. Vol. XIII. No. 9. The Charles Street power house contains two 500-hpand two 600-hp Climax boilers; and three 500-hp andtwo 250-hp directly-coupled Westing-house engines andgenerators known as the Kodak type. These twostations, aggregating about 2,700 hp, provide all thepower used by the electric lines of the Baltimore Trac-tion Company, with the exception of the Curtis Bay road,which has its own power house at Brooklyn. The power station of the Lake Roland Company issituated on Stony Run in the northern part of the city
. Electric railway gazette . se ofemergency. 136 ELECTRIC RAILWAY GAZETTE. Vol. XIII. No. 9. The Charles Street power house contains two 500-hpand two 600-hp Climax boilers; and three 500-hp andtwo 250-hp directly-coupled Westing-house engines andgenerators known as the Kodak type. These twostations, aggregating about 2,700 hp, provide all thepower used by the electric lines of the Baltimore Trac-tion Company, with the exception of the Curtis Bay road,which has its own power house at Brooklyn. The power station of the Lake Roland Company issituated on Stony Run in the northern part of the contains six Corliss boilers 200 hp each, two Corlisstandem-compound condensing engines 650 hp each, andone 400-hp Allis-Corliss tandem-compound condensingengine ; five 400-hp General Electric four-pole gener-ators, two belted to each of the larger engines and oneto the smaller one; and there is also one 1,300-lightSlattery alternator belted to a 150-hp Ball engine, usedfor furnishing lights at Roland and Lakeside FIG. io.—BALTIMORE AND CHARLES STREETS LOOKING NORTHON LATTER STREET. The power stations of all of the other electric roads inand around Baltimore are also shown on the map. Enumeration of Tests. Following is a list of the tests made : 1. Determination of the traction coefficient of thecars used in the tests. 2. Determination of the performance of the cars runover the entire car route, with no other cars on the roadat the time: (a) Pikesville road, 1893, single track. (b) Pikesville road, 1894, partly double track. (c) Lake Roland road, 1894, City Hall to Lakesideand return. 3. Determination of the performance of several differ-ent cars on uniform grades, at steady speeds and undervarious loads and controller positions. 4. Determination of the performance of the same carsrun on both of the roads over the entire car route undersimilar and also under different conditions. 5. Determination of the performance of the same andother cars while running in regula
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