. The Street railway journal . panels. There are two alternating-current generator panels, two alternating-current and two direct-current rotarypanels, a total output panel, one lightingpanel, two feeder panels, and two storage-battery panels. The machinery mentioned is placed in apower house 107 ft. long x 66 ft. wide, con-taining two rooms, a boiler room. 5] ft. x60 ft., and an engine room, 50 ft. x 60 ft.,each covered by a steel-trussed roof. Thereis a clear space of 29 ft. 3 ins. above thefloor in the engine room. A 30-ton two-trolley traveling crane built by Chisholm &Moore, 48J ft. long,
. The Street railway journal . panels. There are two alternating-current generator panels, two alternating-current and two direct-current rotarypanels, a total output panel, one lightingpanel, two feeder panels, and two storage-battery panels. The machinery mentioned is placed in apower house 107 ft. long x 66 ft. wide, con-taining two rooms, a boiler room. 5] ft. x60 ft., and an engine room, 50 ft. x 60 ft.,each covered by a steel-trussed roof. Thereis a clear space of 29 ft. 3 ins. above thefloor in the engine room. A 30-ton two-trolley traveling crane built by Chisholm &Moore, 48J ft. long, is provided, and can be operated overthe full width of the engine room. On one side of theengine room is built a static transformer room, 18 ft. x 324 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XX. No. 10. 18 ft., and on the same side stands the brick stack, 150 The outside of the stack is square in section, taper-ing from 14 ft. at the base to 9 ft. at the top, and it pro-vides a circular smoke passage 6 ft. in diameter. The. SUB-STATION, FREIGHT HOUSEAND AGENTS RESIDENCE power house is connected by a covered passage-way to aspecially constructed storage-battery building, which con-tains a single well-ventilated and lighted room, 77 ft. x29 ft. x 10 ft. high.
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