. American engineer and railroad journal . not toexceed deg. C. after a continuous full-load run of 24 cables leading from the generators to the switchboardare carried in a checkered-plate covered trench in the floor,as shown in the generator view on page 92, which leads toa pit behind the board. The switchboard, which was built bythe General Electric Company, consists of eight panels ofblue Vermont marble, 90 ins. high by 32 ins. wide by 2 , mounted on an angle-iron platform and braced outfrom the wall at a distance of 6 ft. Three of the panels aregenerator panels, two
. American engineer and railroad journal . not toexceed deg. C. after a continuous full-load run of 24 cables leading from the generators to the switchboardare carried in a checkered-plate covered trench in the floor,as shown in the generator view on page 92, which leads toa pit behind the board. The switchboard, which was built bythe General Electric Company, consists of eight panels ofblue Vermont marble, 90 ins. high by 32 ins. wide by 2 , mounted on an angle-iron platform and braced outfrom the wall at a distance of 6 ft. Three of the panels aregenerator panels, two are lighting panels and the other threeare power-feed panels. The board is equipped with two re-cording wattmeters, one for registering the power outputand the other the lighting output. There are at the rear twosets of bus bars, one set for power and one for power feeder panels are equipped with automatic oilswitches. The cables from the generators are brought inunder the switchboard to a pit 4 ft. 3 ins. deep, which is cov-. VIEW OF THE BOILERS, SHOWING TRAVELING LINK GRATES, FEED-WATERHEATER AND PUMP GOVERNOR. VIEW OF BOILER FEED PUMPS, SHOWTNG ALSO ECONOMIZEE AND INDUCED-DRAFT FANS IN PAKT. JACKSON SHOPS POWER PLANT.—MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD. The engine equipment consists of two tandem-compoundliorizontal engines, with cylinders 16 and 25 ins. in diameterby 18 ins. stroke, which run at 200 revolutions per minute,and a smaller tandem-compound engine, with cylinders 10and 16 ins. in diameter by 14 ins. stroke, all three of whichwere furnished by the Ball Engine Company. They are allof the shaft-governor automatic cut-off type, and operate non-condensing at an initial steam pressure of 150 lbs. per squareinch. They are all provided with synchronizing devices, bywhich they may all be brought to a common speed when thedynamos are being operated in parallel. An old air-compressor moved from one of the previouspower plants is installed in the engine room for presen
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