. The Street railway journal . TROLLEV WIRE GENERAL STATION FIG. 4. -DIAGRAMS SHOWING SWITCHBOARD AND BOOSTERCONNECTIONS been furnished by the Wheeler Condenser & En-gineering Company. Three Admiralty type surfacecondensers are installed, one to each pair of mainengines. The condensers are placed in the mgineroom basement between the engine foundations. The airand circulating pumps aie arranged under the condenserand compound steam cylinders are used, piped so as to ex-haust into the receivers of the main engines or into the. FIG. 3—SECTION OF BOILER ROOM SHOWING COAL CONVEYOR so as to be capa
. The Street railway journal . TROLLEV WIRE GENERAL STATION FIG. 4. -DIAGRAMS SHOWING SWITCHBOARD AND BOOSTERCONNECTIONS been furnished by the Wheeler Condenser & En-gineering Company. Three Admiralty type surfacecondensers are installed, one to each pair of mainengines. The condensers are placed in the mgineroom basement between the engine foundations. The airand circulating pumps aie arranged under the condenserand compound steam cylinders are used, piped so as to ex-haust into the receivers of the main engines or into the. FIG. 3—SECTION OF BOILER ROOM SHOWING COAL CONVEYOR so as to be capable of being worked by hand, and in addi-tion there is a second or safety governor acting automati-cally to close a stop valve should the engine from any causespeed up to 95 The shaft is of selected hammeredscrap iron 19 ins. in diameter, where the flywheel and ar-mature are located, and reduced to 17 ins. in diameter inthe journals, which are lined with babbitt metal and are33 ins. long. The flywheel is of semi-steel and is built in condensers, as may be desired. In addition a Wheelerauxiliary feed water heater is provided to enable the ex-haust from the whole of the auxiliary engines to be usedfor heating the feed. The feed water filters are of the Ed-miston pattern, and are arranged on the twin system. The generators are standard General Electric railwaymachines of 500 capacity. The switchboard is placedat the office end of the engine room on a gallery 14 ft. high, 206 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XI
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