. The street railway review . re built by the Filer& Stowell Co., Milwaukee, Wis. The frame of the new engine is of the Filer & Stowell well breaking of tlic valve •<tein. Tlic ami o.\li;ni,st valves on bothcylinders are operated by separate eccentrics, anil disconnecting booksare attached to all steam and exhaust valve rods, so as to permit ofthe working of all the valves by band. This engine is direct connected to a allernalingcurrent General Electric generator which operates at 13,200 is one exciter consisting of a 125-volt 400-ampercmultipolar generator
. The street railway review . re built by the Filer& Stowell Co., Milwaukee, Wis. The frame of the new engine is of the Filer & Stowell well breaking of tlic valve •<tein. Tlic ami o.\li;ni,st valves on bothcylinders are operated by separate eccentrics, anil disconnecting booksare attached to all steam and exhaust valve rods, so as to permit ofthe working of all the valves by band. This engine is direct connected to a allernalingcurrent General Electric generator which operates at 13,200 is one exciter consisting of a 125-volt 400-ampercmultipolar generator direct connected to a 75-h. p. direct cur-rent motor, also one booster set for the storage batteryand one 300-kw. rotary converter for supplying direct current toa portion of ibe road near the power house. A switchboard galleryabout 10 fl. high i*s built at one end of the station beyond thenew engine and underneath this gallery are located the trans-formers and oil switches. There are three 2S0-kw., 25-cycle trans-. OF lKl>lKHTV AT II U ool). known masiivc construction llipnighnut «itb mam bearings, frameand guides made in one casting having a contact with the founda-tion for its entire length. The design of the main bearings is suchthat the side and bottom shells may be removed by simply raisingthe ihaft one-eighth of an inch. The governor operates at a higherspeed than the ordinary Corliss engine governor, thus permitting lliiemployment of smaller parts and the enclosing of the entire mechanism in a dust prf)of case. The variation in speed of this engine whenoperating on changes of load from minimum to maxinuim does nltexceed I per cent. The design of ihe valve gearing is such that allstrains are brought as nearly as possible in the same plane and lliedrop lever which is keyed to the valve stem is supported in thebonnet, thus relieving the valve stem from all transverse strainThii i> an important feature as it prevents any possibility o
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