. The Street railway journal . October, 1899.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 625 using small units as compared with present have return tubular boilers, and Green-Wheelock en-gines. The Western Avenue and Hobbie Street stations of theUnion Traction Company are shown on pages 623 and former is the largest surface railway station in Chi-cago, and contains engines made by Fraser & Chalmers,the George H. Corliss Company and the PennsylvaniaIron Works, all direct connected to Siemens & Halskegenerators. The last one built, of 500-kw. size, to runin connection with the Pen
. The Street railway journal . October, 1899.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 625 using small units as compared with present have return tubular boilers, and Green-Wheelock en-gines. The Western Avenue and Hobbie Street stations of theUnion Traction Company are shown on pages 623 and former is the largest surface railway station in Chi-cago, and contains engines made by Fraser & Chalmers,the George H. Corliss Company and the PennsylvaniaIron Works, all direct connected to Siemens & Halskegenerators. The last one built, of 500-kw. size, to runin connection with the Pennsylvania Iron Works condensing vessel of sufficient capacity to take care of thesteam from 1,400 of engines. The kilowatt capacity of the principal stations is asfollows: Chicago Union Traction Company— Hobbie Street Station 3,200 kw. Western Avenue Station 8,000 kw. Chicago City Railway Company— Fifty-second Street Station 5,000 kw. Forty-ninth Street Station 5,200 kw. Twentieth Street Station 500 FORTY-NINTH STREET* POWER STATION, CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY Companys engine, is fitted with an internal commutatordifferent from the Siemens & Halske former building this generator further commutator im-provements have been made. * The Green Engineering Company, of Chicago, is nowinstalling twenty of its chain grate stokers to go with the8000 of Stirling boilers in this station. The Union Loop station is interesting, having beenoriginally designed to burn oil as fuel, although on ac-count of a rise in prices this is now understood to havebecome uneconomical, f The new Northwestern Elevated station, a descriptionof which appeared in the Street Railway Journal forJuly, page 452, was designed by J. R. Chapman, and one ofits most interesting engineering features is the Weisscounter current central condensing system, in which is a ♦For description see Street Railway Journal for July, 1S99, page For full description of this station see Street Railway
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