. The street railway review . into an engine and a boiler room, theicirmer being 72x45 ft. in area and the latter 44x45 ft. The boilerroom contains two .300-h. p. Cahall water tube boilers, which arcoperated at 100 lb. pressure. The engine room is equipped withtwo Allis Corliss simple condensing engines with cylinder dimen-sions of 20x42 in., and two Westinghouse bell-driven 200-kw. gen-erators. The piping from the boilers to the engines and condensersas well as all valves and fittings were made by the Crane Co. Thecondensers are of the syphon type and the boilers are fed by meansof Metropolit
. The street railway review . into an engine and a boiler room, theicirmer being 72x45 ft. in area and the latter 44x45 ft. The boilerroom contains two .300-h. p. Cahall water tube boilers, which arcoperated at 100 lb. pressure. The engine room is equipped withtwo Allis Corliss simple condensing engines with cylinder dimen-sions of 20x42 in., and two Westinghouse bell-driven 200-kw. gen-erators. The piping from the boilers to the engines and condensersas well as all valves and fittings were made by the Crane Co. Thecondensers are of the syphon type and the boilers are fed by meansof Metropolitan injectors. The switchboard is the standard West-inghouse railway type with two generator and two feeder power house floor as will be seen from the illustration is laid2 ft. above the level of the boiler room and car house. The car house contains four tracks running the length of thebuilding, all of which arc provided with pits. The latter arc sup-plied with steam from pipes from the boiler room laid ELEVATION OF POWER HOUSE. WOODLAKE. loading car which greatly facilitated ilie work of removing the railsfrom the flat cars on which ihcy were shipped. This consisted oftwo single trucks placed about 30 ft. apart and connected with tworails similar to a wagon reach. On top of the trucks, platforms ofplanking were built up, and two other rails 3 ft. apart stretchedbetween the platforms. The upper end of these rails came evenwith the flat car flooring and they had a gradual slope downwardto the other end, rollers being placed between the rails at structure was coupled to the back of the car loaded with railsand as each rail was pulled back upon the rollers it slid down theincline to the end of the unloading car and thence to the ground bymeans of a short skid attached to the rear truck. The overhead lines consist of a No. o trolley wire and a 450,000c. m. feeder which extends the whole length of the interurban arc supported on woode
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