. The Street railway journal . ions are located in small brick build-ings at the end of the line (one of which is shown), someare in car houses, and in addition some portable stations onbox cars are provided for temporary termin-als, and as reserves, for use at car houses. Drawings and photographs both of thestandard compression station and standardcompressor car are reproduced here, throughthe courtesy of W. O. Mundy, master me-chanic. The particular compressor station illustratedhappens to have three air compressors. Someothers have one or two compressors, but thegeneral arrangement remains
. The Street railway journal . ions are located in small brick build-ings at the end of the line (one of which is shown), someare in car houses, and in addition some portable stations onbox cars are provided for temporary termin-als, and as reserves, for use at car houses. Drawings and photographs both of thestandard compression station and standardcompressor car are reproduced here, throughthe courtesy of W. O. Mundy, master me-chanic. The particular compressor station illustratedhappens to have three air compressors. Someothers have one or two compressors, but thegeneral arrangement remains the same. Thisbuilding is 25 ft. square. The storage tanksare located along one wall. A radiator forcooling the jacket water is located alonganother wall. The water from the cylinderjackets of the air compressors is dischargedinto a well from which it is raised by an airlift to a small tank above the level of the ra- compressors of the Westinghouse storage air brake systemwhich the St. Louis Transit Company has adopted for its.
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