. The Street railway journal . are eccentrics are encased and oildrips over them. Automatic sight-feed lubricators lubricate the cylin-ders and exhaust valves. There isa safety stop governor which oper-ates on the throttle at 8 r. p. m. over speed. The speed varia-tion is guaranteed not to exceed 2j;4 per cent when work-ing at any range between minimum and maximum speed. Theguarantee provides that when the engine is running 94 r. p. 150 lbs. steam at throttle with condenser maintaining 698 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [.Vol. XXV. No. 15. 26 ins. vacuum in low-pressure cyli
. The Street railway journal . are eccentrics are encased and oildrips over them. Automatic sight-feed lubricators lubricate the cylin-ders and exhaust valves. There isa safety stop governor which oper-ates on the throttle at 8 r. p. m. over speed. The speed varia-tion is guaranteed not to exceed 2j;4 per cent when work-ing at any range between minimum and maximum speed. Theguarantee provides that when the engine is running 94 r. p. 150 lbs. steam at throttle with condenser maintaining 698 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [.Vol. XXV. No. 15. 26 ins. vacuum in low-pressure cylinder, that it will require notmore than 13 lbs. steam per indicated horse-power per hourwhen developing 2300 hp, not including steam for the con-denser. The engine will develop 3500 hp maximum. Thecondenser system was kept separate from that of the old por-tion of the house. The condenser is a Blake vertical twin jetcondenser, steam cylinder 16 ins., water 40 ins., with 21-in. Water for steam and condensersPay roll Total $2, Cost per kw-hour $.0042 Note—In previous report cost of water was not providing current for the extension, a sub-station outfitwas installed in a new car house erected at Newark and a sub-station built at Pleasant Valley. Thegeneral scheme is the same in bothplaces, the high-tension lines enter-ing through a tower and passingdown over a tubular rack throughhand-operated oil switches. Eachstation has two 300-kw General Elec-tric rotary converters of the standardtype; two 330-kw air-cooled trans-formers, reducing the current from13,200 volts to 370 volts, with reactivecoils for each; two Buffalo ForgeCompanys fans driven by 2-hp induc-tion motors, together with necessaryswitching apparatus. The basementbelow is sealed off for an air chamberfor cables and for ventilation of ro-taries and transformers. THE REPAIR SHOP AND CAR HOUSE AT NEWARK POWER HOUSE, REPAIR SHOPAND EQUIPMENT stroke, and is designed to give 27 ins. vacuum. The
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