. Electric railway journal . to May 15,IQI3- POWER HOUSE AND SUBSTATION DISTRIBUTION The plan of power house and substation location for theelectric railway is shown in the accompanying chart. Thezones are 4 miles in diameter and each one is normally built twenty-six years ago and containing ten 62-kw andtwo 125-kw bipolar generators belted to Ball engines. Thiswas shut down last November. The Division Street plant,which will be abandoned in a few weeks, is equipped withone Wetherill and two Allis-Chalmers Corliss condensingengines having a total capacity of 3900 hp. The enginesare supplied wi
. Electric railway journal . to May 15,IQI3- POWER HOUSE AND SUBSTATION DISTRIBUTION The plan of power house and substation location for theelectric railway is shown in the accompanying chart. Thezones are 4 miles in diameter and each one is normally built twenty-six years ago and containing ten 62-kw andtwo 125-kw bipolar generators belted to Ball engines. Thiswas shut down last November. The Division Street plant,which will be abandoned in a few weeks, is equipped withone Wetherill and two Allis-Chalmers Corliss condensingengines having a total capacity of 3900 hp. The enginesare supplied with steam by a battery of four Heine and fourOBrien water-tube boilers, all equipped with Roney the Viaduct and the Cedar Avenue plants consist oftwo parts, one obsolete, the other fairly modern. Both ofthe modern parts will be continued in service. The newer engines in the Viaduct station have a com-bined capacity of 9600 hp and are of the horizontal cross-compound, Corliss condensing type, three Allis-Chalmers. Cleveland Power—Distributing Areas Around Power Plants and Substations supplied from a single station. The points marked Aand B are respectively the Viaduct and the Cedar steam power stations, which are located in the down-town district. The former station was originally operatedby the Cleveland City Railway Company and the latter bythe Cleveland Electric Railway Company. The foursubstations shown are, from west to east, Contant Ave-nue, West Twenty-fifth Street, Harvard Avenue and Win-dermere. Of these the fourth was put into operation onNov. 15, 1912, and the third two months later. The otherswill be completed in a few weeks. These substations areall equipped with 60-cycle rotary converters and draw11,000-volt, three-phase power, principally from the re-cently constructed Seventieth Street power station of theCleveland Electric Illuminating Company. PRESENT AND FORMER STEAM PLANTS Before the completion of the Windermere substation allpower ge
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