. The Street railway journal . terson Park and thenon to Canton. The Yellow lineruns from Clifton Park to FerryBar, the extreme limit of SouthBaltimore; a branch of this linealso extends to Northeast Balti-more. Both lines use on Balti-more Street the cable tracks ofthe Red and White lines. Theuse of both motive powers on themain artery of the city, it isthought, might be found usefulif anything should happen toeither motive power, as the operating cars can clear the street by pushing the dis-abled cars. In this way a bvstander would hardly knowthat anything was the matter. The power station,
. The Street railway journal . terson Park and thenon to Canton. The Yellow lineruns from Clifton Park to FerryBar, the extreme limit of SouthBaltimore; a branch of this linealso extends to Northeast Balti-more. Both lines use on Balti-more Street the cable tracks ofthe Red and White lines. Theuse of both motive powers on themain artery of the city, it isthought, might be found usefulif anything should happen toeither motive power, as the operating cars can clear the street by pushing the dis-abled cars. In this way a bvstander would hardly knowthat anything was the matter. The power station, which is a very handsome struct-ure of brick and iron with stone trimmings, is located at roof, the room is lighted on the sides by twelve largewindows and two semi-circular windows over the the Light Street front the engine room floor is elevatedabout six feet above the street level, and is reached by adouble step. The side street gradually rises as it extendsback to the level with the engine floor at the rear of the. FIG. 1. —LIGHT STREET ELECTRIC POWER STATION—BALTIMORE CITY PASSENGER RAILWAY CO. building. The engines are three in number, of the highpressure, non-condensing E. P. Allis, Corliss type, withcylinders thirty inches in diameter with sixty inch flywheels are twenty-six feet in diameter and weigh70,000 lbs. each. Each of the engines is belted direct to a Westinghouse 500 k. w. generatorby two-ply belts. These belts arefifty-four inches wide and 137 and were manufactured bythe Bradford Belting Company. As will be seen in the illus-tration, the engine room presentsa very neat appearance. Thearrangement of the machinery issuch as to utilize space and atthe same time afford plentyof room on all sides for the at-tendants. All steam piping andwiring is under the floor, whichgreatly facilitates the moving ofthe machinery in case repairs areneeded. The generators and en-gines are tastefully decorated andnumbered, and each generator isprovide
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