. The street railway review . gines, two 300-kw. engine driven boosters, and two 900-kw. 2200-volt three-phase lighting units driven by Rice & Sargent cross-com-pound engines. Rankin Station, at Rankin on the Monongahela River, seven miles Roney stokers, and eight Soo-kw. railway units direct connectedto 30 and 54 by 48-in. horizontal cross-compound engines built bytlie Pennsylvania Iron Works. Coal is handled by a Mead con-veyor and the engine room is served by a 40-ton Pawling & Har-nischfeger crane. Power plants drawing their water supply from the rivers atPittsburg have to contend with dif
. The street railway review . gines, two 300-kw. engine driven boosters, and two 900-kw. 2200-volt three-phase lighting units driven by Rice & Sargent cross-com-pound engines. Rankin Station, at Rankin on the Monongahela River, seven miles Roney stokers, and eight Soo-kw. railway units direct connectedto 30 and 54 by 48-in. horizontal cross-compound engines built bytlie Pennsylvania Iron Works. Coal is handled by a Mead con-veyor and the engine room is served by a 40-ton Pawling & Har-nischfeger crane. Power plants drawing their water supply from the rivers atPittsburg have to contend with difficulties which are not appre by those who do not have to operate under similar conditions. TheInited States Government requires that all intake pipes enteringthe river shall be placed about 8 ft. below the pool level; that is,8 ft. below surface of the. river at its lowest stage when theheights of the various dams determine the level in the pools abovethem. -\t Pittsburg floods often cause a rise in the Ohio River of. CENTK.\1. IOKTIliN OF FOIINr>AT|llX lI,.\N. l:KIN()T ISLAND ST.\T1(>N from the business district is the property of the Allegheny CountyLight Co. and supplies the Monongahela Division. At this stationarc four 500-volt railway generators direct connected to cross-compound engines built by the Iron Works, and five7SO-kw. Iioo-volt two-phase alternators driven by engines of thesame type and make. The boilers at the station arc Stirling, withRoncy stokers. Divisions 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, comprising the greater part of theold Consolidated lines are served by two power plants, 20tli St. andHen Venue. Twentieth St. Station is on the Allegheny River, at the foot ofaoih St., Pittsburg. This plant was described at length in theReview for February, 135. There arc at this station16 UalKOck & Wilcox boilers rated at 375 h. p. each, fitted with .•?o ft. within so short a lime as lliree days. When the water thusrises there is so much foreign mailer
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