. The Street railway journal . rs, if necessary, or can deliver cold water from the coldwell. Adjoining the boiler-feed and hot-well pumps is a Still- have Hoppes heaters, purifiers, steam separators and oil elim-inators. The exhaust from the auxiliaries, steam pumps andsteam exciters is all conveyed to the open type heater, givingthe benefit of this additional hot water. The engines are lubri-c?ted by an automatic oiling system consisting of a 90-gallonoverhead tank and a 90-gallon Cross filter in the basement. Asmall Victor pump delivers oil from the filter to the tank, andfrom the latter it
. The Street railway journal . rs, if necessary, or can deliver cold water from the coldwell. Adjoining the boiler-feed and hot-well pumps is a Still- have Hoppes heaters, purifiers, steam separators and oil elim-inators. The exhaust from the auxiliaries, steam pumps andsteam exciters is all conveyed to the open type heater, givingthe benefit of this additional hot water. The engines are lubri-c?ted by an automatic oiling system consisting of a 90-gallonoverhead tank and a 90-gallon Cross filter in the basement. Asmall Victor pump delivers oil from the filter to the tank, andfrom the latter it flows by gravity to all bearings. Floor standson the engine-room floor give the engineer control of the en-gines, condenser and exciter engines. The main generators are direct-connected to the engineshafts and are the General Electric Companys revolving field,three-phase, 25-cycle type. They are rated at 540 kw, and de-liver 845 amps, at 370 volts. They are guaranteed to stand 50 126 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIV. No. from Exciters
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