. The Street railway journal . witchboard withthirty-two feeder panels, located in the old engine room. Manyof the details of the ultimate equipment for this station have notbeen decided upon as yet, so only general mention can be madeof them. The transformers are located in fireproof compart-ments under the south side of the engine room, and between ft. high, the flow being on about the level of the con-denser pit in the power house. This pit is divided by crosswalls of concrete, in which the oil is allowed to settle,the lighter oil being run off into the last pit, from which itis pumped into
. The Street railway journal . witchboard withthirty-two feeder panels, located in the old engine room. Manyof the details of the ultimate equipment for this station have notbeen decided upon as yet, so only general mention can be madeof them. The transformers are located in fireproof compart-ments under the south side of the engine room, and between ft. high, the flow being on about the level of the con-denser pit in the power house. This pit is divided by crosswalls of concrete, in which the oil is allowed to settle,the lighter oil being run off into the last pit, from which itis pumped into the two storage tanks. Each of these tanksis 40 ft. in diameter, 35 ft. high and has a capacity of 7800barrels. The oil flows by gravity from these storage tanks tothe three burning tanks situated in the oil house. Each of theburning tanks holds about 600 barrels. They contain steamcoils which heat the oil to about 124 degs., and it is then pumped FIG. 7.—rLAN AND SECTIONSHOWING GENERAL AR-RANGEMENT OF OILSYSTEM FOR BOILERS. Street 398 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIII. No. n. these compartments will be placed the oil switches and oper-ating gear. The transformers will raise the machine voltage of2300 volts to 15,000 volts for transmission. The high-tensionwires will be carried up the wall in fireproof conduits to the
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