. The street railway review . from this boiler room is on the sec<ind floor and is e^iuipped with 12Babcock & Wilcox boilers and 2 Thayer t^oilers. This boiler roomis the only one in the direct-current stations which is equipped withstokers. This station is operated condensing. The condenser sys-tem includes one E. P. Allis direct-driven pump which draws thewater through the condenser header* for all the units. This systemhas proved reliable and satisfactory. The station at . and Market Sts. is equipped with four We»t-inghouse 1,500-kw. direct-current generators two of whic
. The street railway review . from this boiler room is on the sec<ind floor and is e^iuipped with 12Babcock & Wilcox boilers and 2 Thayer t^oilers. This boiler roomis the only one in the direct-current stations which is equipped withstokers. This station is operated condensing. The condenser sys-tem includes one E. P. Allis direct-driven pump which draws thewater through the condenser header* for all the units. This systemhas proved reliable and satisfactory. The station at . and Market Sts. is equipped with four We»t-inghouse 1,500-kw. direct-current generators two of which aredirect connected to VVcthcrill cross compound engines and two toIennsylvania Iron Works Co. engines. There arc also two 8oo-kw.,direct-current generators connected to Pennsylvania Iron WorksCo. tandem-compound engines. This power house was originally a non-condensing station andhas recently been changed to a condensing station by installingBarnard cooling towers. These arc lomi-d r.„ i\,.- t,.,.I ,.! ilw , r. POWER PLANT AT I3TH AND MT. VERNON STS. boiler-room floor. These cars are pushed along the runway to twoautomatic ash elevators built at one end of the boiler room. Thetypo of ash elevator used here is novel in that it requires nohandling except the starting on the up trip. The ashes from thecollecting car are dumped into the bucket and the elevator is startedby pulling an end rope in the ordinary manner. When loaded andstarted the elevator requires no further attention. The bucket car-rying about 1,000 lb. of ashes is raised to the top of the elevatorwhich automatically dumps the ashes into a storage bin, rights itselfand returns to the starting point at the bottom of the elevator elevator was made by the Morsc-M^lliams Co. Fromthe pockets on the under side of the ash storage bin the ashes areloaded into specially constructed cars which have a capacit> of 20tons each and are used for collecting and distributing ashes fromthe ge
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