. The street railway review . Twenty Babcock & Wilcox 250-h. p. water tube boilers, allequipped with Wilkinson automatic Si. Station. This is also a plant acquired with the Nassau syslem. It wasbuilt in 1895 and contains: There 750-h. p. cross-compound Corliss engines, 22 and 40x48 in.,running at 83 r. p. m., and two 1,500-h. p. cross-compound Corlissengines, 28 and 52x48 in., running at 75 r. p. m., all liuilt by the C. &G. Cooper Co. The engines are connected to VVortliinglon surfacecondensers. Two Westinghouse multi-polar 66o-kw. direct-connected gen-erators ; one Westi
. The street railway review . Twenty Babcock & Wilcox 250-h. p. water tube boilers, allequipped with Wilkinson automatic Si. Station. This is also a plant acquired with the Nassau syslem. It wasbuilt in 1895 and contains: There 750-h. p. cross-compound Corliss engines, 22 and 40x48 in.,running at 83 r. p. m., and two 1,500-h. p. cross-compound Corlissengines, 28 and 52x48 in., running at 75 r. p. m., all liuilt by the C. &G. Cooper Co. The engines are connected to VVortliinglon surfacecondensers. Two Westinghouse multi-polar 66o-kw. direct-connected gen-erators ; one Westinghouse 560-kw. direct-connected booster; twoWestinghouse multipolar 1,120-kw, direct-connected boosters. Boilers. Ten Babcock & Wilcox 250-h. p. water tube boilers. Bridge the cable driving machinery the Bridge station c(Hitainstwo 400-kw. Walker generators, direct coniiecled lo Iwo 600-h |i. Southwark Foumlry & Machine Cos. sinq)le eiiKinvs. ^52 SlkMh;! ,W klA [ XI . Mo. CLEOPATRAS Obelisk stiinds in Central Park near the 82ud street full length of the obelisk is 69 ft. 2 in. It was presented to thecity of New York by the late Khedive of Egypt, Ismail Pasha, andwas brought with great difficulty from its ancient site in Nubia on theNile. The accompanying table is a summary of the equipment andcapacity of the five Brooklyn Rapid Transit electric power houses: SUMMARY OF ELECTRIC POWER STATIONS OPERATED BY BROOK-LYN RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM. Engine capacity (not includ-injr booster engines) in Engine capacity {includingbooster engines) in h. p Generator capacity in kw Rated generator capacityampers Boiler capacit^^ in h. Southern)r S2d Easternor KentAve. Sta. IJirf !39th „;^..• Station 4,«07,700 1,2001,200 The average current output of the power stations of the Brook-lyn Rapid Transit Co. has risen from less than 200 amperes ini8g_>, to 8,000 amperes in 1895, to 15,000 in 189S to nearly 4
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