. The Street railway journal . hot water is thrown on to wire screens hanging ver-tically in the tower, and trickling; down over these is in rate meter also measures the water fed to each boiler;these devices will greatly facilitate the keeping of stationrecords. The feed water taken from the hot wells after passingthe heater goes through a Greens fuel economizer of 832tubes, which, owing to the limited space, is placed overthe boilers. The station switchboard is of white marble fitted withGeneral Electric switches and circuit breakers and Wes-ton voltmeters and ammeters. There are in
. The Street railway journal . hot water is thrown on to wire screens hanging ver-tically in the tower, and trickling; down over these is in rate meter also measures the water fed to each boiler;these devices will greatly facilitate the keeping of stationrecords. The feed water taken from the hot wells after passingthe heater goes through a Greens fuel economizer of 832tubes, which, owing to the limited space, is placed overthe boilers. The station switchboard is of white marble fitted withGeneral Electric switches and circuit breakers and Wes-ton voltmeters and ammeters. There are in all ten pan-els, one each for the generators; one main panel for theentire station output; one for the station itself, and one foreach two of the eight feeders. For the north end of the roadthere are three feeders,two of 1,000,000 cm. and one of 500,000 cm.; for thesouth end are two of 1,500,000 cm., two of 1,000,000 andone of 500,000. The cables were drawn into position onthe structure with a locomotive. They are supported on. FIG. 5.—SECTION OF STATION contact with an air blast created by ten fans, each 10 diameter. The fan shafts, of which there are five, passthrough the power house wall and are direct connected toC. & C. 18 motors. The capacity of the tower is5000 gals, of water per minute, reducing the temperatureapproximately from 140° to 90° F. The boiler room is equipped with eight 600 Bab-cock & Wilcox water tube boilers, and automatic chaingrate stokers, made by the same company. The fittingsand valves were supplied by the Crane Company. The mainsteam headers are 12 in. in diameter and are joined to theengines and boilers by 8 in. pipes. From the Lake Shore Railroad a switch brings the coalcars directly into and over a large hopper, discharginginto a crusher driven by an electric motor. After crush-ing, the coal is carried by Mead conveyors to the storagebins above the boilers; before reaching the furnaces itpasses through an automatic weighing mac
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