. The Street railway journal . lpful in case ofemergency. The station building is of plain but neat design, and is ofmachine brick with red mortar and stone copings. It has awing on one side for fuel storage bins, and on the other for astatic room. In the engine room are two Westinghouse 500-kw400-vnlt a. c. generators of the revolving-field type, driven by2r-in. and 42-in. x 48-in. horizontal cross-compound Buckeyeengines operating at 95 r. p. m. Provision has been made in the station layout for the installation of a third unit of the sameor larger capacity. There are two exciter sets, compos
. The Street railway journal . lpful in case ofemergency. The station building is of plain but neat design, and is ofmachine brick with red mortar and stone copings. It has awing on one side for fuel storage bins, and on the other for astatic room. In the engine room are two Westinghouse 500-kw400-vnlt a. c. generators of the revolving-field type, driven by2r-in. and 42-in. x 48-in. horizontal cross-compound Buckeyeengines operating at 95 r. p. m. Provision has been made in the station layout for the installation of a third unit of the sameor larger capacity. There are two exciter sets, composed of37/<2-kw Westinghouse generators, each driven by a Buckeyesimple engine running at 300 r. p. m. The condensers for themain engines are of the surface type, Stilwell-Bierce-Smith-Vaile manufacture. Each engine has a separate condenser, butthe exaust piping is cross-connected so that either will handleeither engine. A Buncly vacuum oil separator is provided inthe exhaust of each engine operated in connection with a BOILER-ROOM AT WINCHESTER x 8-iri. x jo-in. vacuum pump. The live steam separators forthe exciter engines are Cochrane. There are two ro-in. x 6-in. x 12-in. boiler feed-pumps ofthe outside-end packed plunger type and having pot is a 6-in. x 8-in. x io-in. duplex piston pattern pump forpumping water to a 1600-hp Stilwell-Bierce open heater. A5y4_in- x 4-)4-in. x 5-in. duplex piston pattern pump provideswater to a supply tank for house purposes. A 16-in. x 9-in. x12-in. Underwriters fire pump takes care of the fire pumps, the heater and steam piping arc arranged back ofthe boilers, there being a space of about 9 ft. between the walland the back of the boilers. All of these pumps are Stilwell-Bierce-Smith-Vaile manufacture. Each is provided with aFisher governor, and they have cast-iron drip pans to catchall drip, pans being piped to drain. All governors are high-pressure receivers, heaters, steam headers, etc., aredrai
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