. The Street railway journal . compound condensing engines, made by Clark Brothers,Belmont, N. Y., are installed. These are of the bored guidetype with Rites governor. The valves are of the usualCorliss type, but without the releasing gear. Directly con- BOILER PLANT - ment and location of the machinery. Themain building has a frontage of 74 ft. 6 ins.,and extends back 80 ft. 3 ins. The engineroom, which occupies the entire front of themain building, is 40 ft. 10 ins. deep, and theboiler room 39 ft. 5 ins., but the latter is only38 ft. 6 ins. wide. The steel stack alluded tois alongside of the
. The Street railway journal . compound condensing engines, made by Clark Brothers,Belmont, N. Y., are installed. These are of the bored guidetype with Rites governor. The valves are of the usualCorliss type, but without the releasing gear. Directly con- BOILER PLANT - ment and location of the machinery. Themain building has a frontage of 74 ft. 6 ins.,and extends back 80 ft. 3 ins. The engineroom, which occupies the entire front of themain building, is 40 ft. 10 ins. deep, and theboiler room 39 ft. 5 ins., but the latter is only38 ft. 6 ins. wide. The steel stack alluded tois alongside of the boiler room and back ofthe engine room. In the construction of thisplant the foundations were made of concreteand the walls of brick. The machineryfoundations are built of brick laid in Port-land cement mortar. Steel roof trusses withslate are used, and the buildings are as nearlyfireproof as it is possible to make them. The general arrangement of the machineryis clearly indicated in the plans. Two 450-hp. SUB-STATION nected to each engine is a 300-kw General Electric direct-current railway generator, running at 150 r. p. m. Thesemachines furnish power for that end of the line at 575 volts to600 volts. There is also a 200-kw inverted rotary in the mainstation, and three 80-kw oil-cooled transformers. Direct cur-
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