. The street railway review . ical emergency brake. The grades are very severe on someof the routes and efficient brakes and ample motor power arenecessary. May is, 1906.] STREET RAILWAY REVIEW 251 The power station is constructed in two bays of about 53 x 104ft., and is built of brick and steel. The roof is of corrugated ironlaid over i]4-. boards. The present equipment comprises fourBabcock & Wilcox boilers fitted with chain-grate stokers andGreen economizers. There are three horizontal cross-compound,Corliss engines rated at a maximum of 700 h. p. running at 100 m. with a steam pressur
. The street railway review . ical emergency brake. The grades are very severe on someof the routes and efficient brakes and ample motor power arenecessary. May is, 1906.] STREET RAILWAY REVIEW 251 The power station is constructed in two bays of about 53 x 104ft., and is built of brick and steel. The roof is of corrugated ironlaid over i]4-. boards. The present equipment comprises fourBabcock & Wilcox boilers fitted with chain-grate stokers andGreen economizers. There are three horizontal cross-compound,Corliss engines rated at a maximum of 700 h. p. running at 100 m. with a steam pressure at the stop valve of 150 11). per sq. these engines are direct connected three 300-kw., 8-pole, con-tinuous-current, compound-wound generators capable of 50 percent overload. There are also one 600-kw. set capable of 1,000 hp.; one 25-kw. auxiliary unit manufactured by the General ElectricCo., and four boosters each consisting of a shunt-wound motordirect-connected to a series-wound generator. The switchboard is. CAR HOUSE AT DUNEDIN. of blue Vermont marble and contains 14 panels. The power sta-tion is also equipped with a 20-ton overhead crane which isoperated by hand from the floor. The company owns two car houses which have been recon-structed and electrically equipped to accommodate 44 and 30 carsrespectively. The principal shop is in two bays 354 and 328 respectively and each 139 ft. wide, containing the car shed,paint shop and erecting shop. There are 6 tracks in the car shedall of which have pits under their entire lengths. A third andsmaller bay contains the machine and woodworking shop, theblacksmiths shop, winding room and store rooms. A cross-pitconnects the machine shop with the car shed. Light rails are laidalong the floor of all the pits with turntables at the junctions withthe cross-pit. By means of wheeled hydraulic jacks the partsrequiring repair can readily be transported from under the carsto the shops. The equipment of the repair shops includ
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