. The Street railway journal . the lines the company is planning to build, and pro- iture of $110,000 in copper alone, to say nothing of theposed capacities of power stations. The greater part of cost of power-station machinery. Furthermore, this cop-the power is generated at De Hodiamont, which is about per would be of no value to the balance of the line. It was 12 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL, [Vol. XVIIL No. i. then concluded that the proper solution of the problemwould be to put in a couple of i200-kw, three-phase gen-erators, which could supply the downtown end of the ro^^d. FIG. 3.—POLYPHASE S
. The Street railway journal . the lines the company is planning to build, and pro- iture of $110,000 in copper alone, to say nothing of theposed capacities of power stations. The greater part of cost of power-station machinery. Furthermore, this cop-the power is generated at De Hodiamont, which is about per would be of no value to the balance of the line. It was 12 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL, [Vol. XVIIL No. i. then concluded that the proper solution of the problemwould be to put in a couple of i200-kw, three-phase gen-erators, which could supply the downtown end of the ro^^d. FIG. 3.—POLYPHASE SWITCHBOARD power house at Brentwood, and run that power house as asub-station, except on Sundays during the heaviest load,when the steam plant will be started up. Another sub-station is also being considered atRamona. The i200-kw generator at the DeHodiamont power house is a 6600-volt, 25-cycle, 105-amp. machineof General Electric make, directconnected to a 30-in. and 50-in. x60-in. compound condensing Cor-liss engine, bulk by the FultonIron Works Company, of St. run this new unit some oldhorizontal return flue boilers weretaken out of the boiler plant andreplaced by three 500-hp water-tube boilers built by the J. OBrienBoiler Works Company, of , and fitted with Hawleydown-draft furnaces. The engineoperates at 75 r. p. m. It is the in-tention to build a cooling towerand run condensing. The cylinderson the engine are lubricated by aPhoenix automatic pump lubri-cator, which consists of severalsmall pumps operated from the and other distant points if
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