. The Street railway journal . in the immediate neighborhood of the station, but, if ing with free exhaust, and are fitted with Corliss valvegear. Their cylinder dimensions are 1800 mm and 1100mm x 1500-mm stroke ( ins. and ins. x 59 ins.);each engine is fitted with a fly-wheel weighing 63,000 kg(138,600 lbs.), and operates at 70 r. p. m. The rotaries atthe sub-stations are of 750 kw capacity each. A section andplan of the main station are given in Figs. 24 and 25. Fig. 8o6 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. | Vol. XVI. No. 35. 26 shows the exterior of the station. The whole stationoutfit is to
. The Street railway journal . in the immediate neighborhood of the station, but, if ing with free exhaust, and are fitted with Corliss valvegear. Their cylinder dimensions are 1800 mm and 1100mm x 1500-mm stroke ( ins. and ins. x 59 ins.);each engine is fitted with a fly-wheel weighing 63,000 kg(138,600 lbs.), and operates at 70 r. p. m. The rotaries atthe sub-stations are of 750 kw capacity each. A section andplan of the main station are given in Figs. 24 and 25. Fig. 8o6 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. | Vol. XVI. No. 35. 26 shows the exterior of the station. The whole stationoutfit is to be provided by Schneider & Company, ofCreusot. One of the chief reasons that the Parisians in generalwere not aware of the extent of the subterranean workgoing on was that so little surface activity was reason for this was that arrangements were made fortransporting the excavated earth by tunnels to the such tunnels were built, one at the Avenue dAntin,above the Champs Elysees station, another at the. FIG. 26. — EXTERIOR VIEW OF THE POWER HOUSE Place de la Concorde, another at the Louvre sta-tion, and another close to the Hotel de Ville this means the streets were kept clear of an end-less succession of carts loaded with earth, and theprocess of excavation could be pushed more rapidly tocompletion. This comprised the sections between the station and the Champs Elysees. Near the Bastillethe earth was removed by canal-boats, for the remainingsections of the line convenient points were selected, fromwhich loaded carts could be sent to the river withoutseriously interfering with regular street traffic. Suchpoints were at the terminal stations of Porte Dauphine andPorte Maillot, the Place de lEtoile, Care de Lyon andPlace de la Nation. Nevertheless, as soon as the tunnelscould be laid with rails a great part of the transportationof excavated earth was directed to the special tunnels, evenfrom a distance. The engineer in charge of rolling m
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