. The Street railway journal . g Foundry & MachineCompany, and fitted with the Weitmeyer setting. Thedraught in this furnace, instead of coming in at the front, on both sidesbeing left onwheel flange. of the rail,the inside a spacefor the POWER HOUSES. The company has at presenttwo power houses. A view of themain, or South Wilkesbarre station,wtth one of the car houses of thecompany, is shown in Fig. 3, andan interior view of this station isgiven in Fig. 2. It is a substantialbrick structure located close to a spur of one of the railroads so that coal can be dumpeddirectly in front of the boil
. The Street railway journal . g Foundry & MachineCompany, and fitted with the Weitmeyer setting. Thedraught in this furnace, instead of coming in at the front, on both sidesbeing left onwheel flange. of the rail,the inside a spacefor the POWER HOUSES. The company has at presenttwo power houses. A view of themain, or South Wilkesbarre station,wtth one of the car houses of thecompany, is shown in Fig. 3, andan interior view of this station isgiven in Fig. 2. It is a substantialbrick structure located close to a spur of one of the railroads so that coal can be dumpeddirectly in front of the boilers. It is commodious andwell lighted, and ventilated by windows on all sides, sothat even in the warmest days of summer both boiler andengine room are comfortably cool. It has two iron stacksninety feet high. The present engine equipment consists of four Idealcompound engines, cylinder dimensions 17 and 28 X 18ins. stroke, running at 187 revolutions per minute. Theseare belted to the same number of 200 k. w., bipolar Gen-. FIG. 2—INTERIOR OF POWER STATION—WILKESBARRE & WYOMING VALLEY TRACTION CO is led in at the back of the furnace, the air becomingheated before it passes through the coal. Each boiler isfifteen feet long by seventy-two inches in diameter, andcontains 114 three-inch tubes. A Webster feedwaterheater supplies water to the boilers at an average tem-perature of 200 degs. Worthington pumps and a Lockedamper regulator are employed. The switchboard islocated at the eastern end of the engine room, andis of the General Electric panel type. The company •will probably increase its power station capacity in the
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