. The Street railway journal . DOUBLE S CURVE UNDER BRIDGE, BEFORE AND AFTER STRAIGHTENING TRACK purchased consisted of three separate systems: the Davenport& Suburban, with 11 miles of track; the Moline, East Moline& Watertown, having 8 miles of track, and the Tri-City Rail-way, with 65 miles of track. The work of reconstructing thesystems will consist in centralizing the power supply for all. probably be installed within a few months. In connectionwith the turbine there are being installed three 500-hp Stirlingwater-tube boilers. The additional units in the station willprovide emergency capa
. The Street railway journal . DOUBLE S CURVE UNDER BRIDGE, BEFORE AND AFTER STRAIGHTENING TRACK purchased consisted of three separate systems: the Davenport& Suburban, with 11 miles of track; the Moline, East Moline& Watertown, having 8 miles of track, and the Tri-City Rail-way, with 65 miles of track. The work of reconstructing thesystems will consist in centralizing the power supply for all. probably be installed within a few months. In connectionwith the turbine there are being installed three 500-hp Stirlingwater-tube boilers. The additional units in the station willprovide emergency capacity to be used in the event of failureof the water-power plant of 2000-kw capacity which is run inconnection with the steam plant. The water head underwhich the water-power plant is operated, and which is ob-tained by damming the chute of the Mississippi River betweenRock Island and the Illinois shore, is at the present time lim-ited to about 2000 kw, but is capable of a very much greater
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