. Electric railway gazette . hine, built by the GeneralElectric Company. From this plant light is fur-nished for the station, for the coal-pocket and car-houses. The engine-room is also lighted by groupsof incandescent lights mounted on handsome brasscolumns. Surmounting each generator is a groupof five incandescent lights, the center one inclosedin a ground glass case, on the four sides of whichappears the number of the generator (Fig. 3). Thewalls of the engine-room are finished in a lightcream color, the effect greatly adding to the at-tractive appearance of the station. The boiler-room is
. Electric railway gazette . hine, built by the GeneralElectric Company. From this plant light is fur-nished for the station, for the coal-pocket and car-houses. The engine-room is also lighted by groupsof incandescent lights mounted on handsome brasscolumns. Surmounting each generator is a groupof five incandescent lights, the center one inclosedin a ground glass case, on the four sides of whichappears the number of the generator (Fig. 3). Thewalls of the engine-room are finished in a lightcream color, the effect greatly adding to the at-tractive appearance of the station. The boiler-room is 112 feet long and about 50 feetin width. It is equipped with six 250 H. p. Bab-cock & Wilcox boilers, with enamel brick fronts,arranged in batteries of two each. Fig. 2. Eachboiler is equipped with a device shown at the topfor instantly shutting off the water and steam forwater gauges, in case the gauge glass should break,As all the boilers are run at high pressure and thewater gauges are some feet above the reach of the. FIG. 2. RIDGEWOOD POWER STATION BOILER ROOM. Electric multipolar generators, each of 300 kilo-watts capacity (Fig. 5). Both armatures are mountedon the same shaft and are connected to the driv-ing pulley by means of friction clutches, furnishedby Clutch , of Cleveland. The Conly, of Pittsburg, Pa. All drip from the sepa-rators and engine jackets is returned to the boilerby a Worthington pump, while that from the mainsteam lines returns by gravity. Chapman valvesand throttles and Keasbey magnesia pipe covering attendants on the floor, it is considered desirableto provide in some way for shutting off the waterin case of the breakage of the gauge glass. Thedevice connects the gauge to the boiler and is pro-vided with shut-off cocks, the handles of which are 214 STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. November 24, 1894. joined by a connecting rod. Should the gaugeglass break, the valves are instantly closed by apull on the handle. Argand blowers for the furnaces ar
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