. The Street railway journal . mps. tion of being the largest electrical street railway power plant in theworld in actual operation at the present time. The magnitude ofthe enterprise, however, is not its most interesting nor its most im-portant feature. The entire system of the Metropolitan Companypresents an interesting study for engineers and managers of largepower plants and street railway properties, but in no department 57° STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL, [Vol. XIX. No. 18. is there greater opportunity for experimental investigation than in in the world in actual operation to-day. There are othe
. The Street railway journal . mps. tion of being the largest electrical street railway power plant in theworld in actual operation at the present time. The magnitude ofthe enterprise, however, is not its most interesting nor its most im-portant feature. The entire system of the Metropolitan Companypresents an interesting study for engineers and managers of largepower plants and street railway properties, but in no department 57° STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL, [Vol. XIX. No. 18. is there greater opportunity for experimental investigation than in in the world in actual operation to-day. There are other plants now the steam plant, where the highest type of mechanical equipment in course of construction in New York which, when completed, will is employed throughout. ■ have larger capacity, and these, too, are being equipped with Roney The steam plant contains eighty boilers arranged in three tiers, mechanical stokers—the Manhattan Railway, for instance, with its AGITATORFEED-WHEE AGITATOR SECTOR SHEATH-NUT^ BOILER FRONT. DETAILS OF CONSTRUCTION OF THE RONEY MECHANICAL STOKER 200 ft. x 166 ft. each. They are Babcock & Wilcox water-tube boil-ers, with 126 4-in. tubes 18 ft. long and two 42-in. drums 9-16 of aninch thick and 23 ft. 3?^ ins. long. The boilers are built to carry200 lbs., but at the pressure adopted for the station, 160 lbs., theyhave a rated capacity of 250 hp, although they can develop 400hp. These boilers are supported by steel beams connected with the ultimate equipment of 384 stokers attached to ninety-six boilers of50,400 hp; the New York Edison Waterside station, which willhave 224 stokers under boilers developing 35,000 hp, and the ThirdAvenue Street Railway plant of the Metropolitan Company with240 stokers under 31,500 hp of boilers. But for some time theNinety-Sixth Street station of the Metropolitan Company can FEEO WHEEL-AG,TAT0R SECTOR
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