. The Street railway journal . which the cinders were removed. Theboilers were operated by forced draft, the air being driven by a1 0-ft. Sturtevant blower through a chamber built in connectionwith the cinder tunnel. The coal handling and stoking weredone entirely by hand. The engine room was 70 ft. wide and I 05 ft. long, and in it September 23, 1905.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 513 were installed two 28-in. x 54-in. x 48-in. cross-compound boilers each were installed, each boiler having a normal rating Wetherill engines, each driving a 1 000-kw General Electric gener- of 700 hp. An extension to
. The Street railway journal . which the cinders were removed. Theboilers were operated by forced draft, the air being driven by a1 0-ft. Sturtevant blower through a chamber built in connectionwith the cinder tunnel. The coal handling and stoking weredone entirely by hand. The engine room was 70 ft. wide and I 05 ft. long, and in it September 23, 1905.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 513 were installed two 28-in. x 54-in. x 48-in. cross-compound boilers each were installed, each boiler having a normal rating Wetherill engines, each driving a 1 000-kw General Electric gener- of 700 hp. An extension to the north has been built to accom- ator and one 23-in. and 40-in. x 20-in. Westinghouse automatic modate an additional battery of the same capacity. The new compound engine, driving a 400-kw Westinghouse generator. 700-hp boilers are double-end boilers; that is, they are fired from The decision to make the plant permanent and to add to its both ends. They are equipped with automatic stokers. The 6,600,000 6,400,000 6,200,000. 3,000,000 6,600,000 0,400,000 G,200,000 0,000,000 5,800,000 5,000,000 5,400,000 5,200,000 5,000,000 4,800,000 4,600,000 4,400,000 4,200,000 4,000,000 3,800,000 3,000,000 3,400,000 3,200,000 3,000,000 Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. MONTHS. Street CURVES SHOWING TOTAL CAR-MILES BY MONTHS SINCE 1897 FOR PHILADELPHIA RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM capacity meant practically rebuilding the structure without in-terfering with its operation. The station as it now appears ispractically completed, and comprises a boiler room 54 ft. wideand 267 ft. long, and an engine room 70 ft. wide and 242 In the boiler room the six old boilers were rebuilt, and arerated at 600 hp each. South of these four new batteries of two total area of the boiler room is 1 4,098 sq. ft., making about ft. per horse-power. Between the old and new boilers a brick-lined steel stack 14 diameter and 220 ft. high has been erected. An extension
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