. The Street railway journal . FIG. 6.—PARTIAL PLAN OF POWER HOUSE, SHOWING TWO UNITS into the fore bay, and which would otherwise catch in theracks. The gates in the south side of the river are of the ordi-nary slide type, and three in number. They are operated horizontal wheels, giving a total of four 42-in. wheelsdirectly connected with each generator shaft. Thesewheels are designed and guaranteed to develop 1,000 set, or 250 each. 272 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIV. No. 5. This method of installing wheels is an innovation inlow head work, and forms an exceedingly compact an
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 6.—PARTIAL PLAN OF POWER HOUSE, SHOWING TWO UNITS into the fore bay, and which would otherwise catch in theracks. The gates in the south side of the river are of the ordi-nary slide type, and three in number. They are operated horizontal wheels, giving a total of four 42-in. wheelsdirectly connected with each generator shaft. Thesewheels are designed and guaranteed to develop 1,000 set, or 250 each. 272 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIV. No. 5. This method of installing wheels is an innovation inlow head work, and forms an exceedingly compact and effi-cient unit. The shafts, with couplings attached, can beseen in Fig. 4 projecting through the wheel chamberwall. In addition to the wheels just described there are twosets in the wheel chamber at the east end of the house,which were manufactured and installed by the D. S. Mor-. FlG. 7.—VIEW OF BEAR TRAPS gan Water Wheel Company. These wheels are for thepurpose of operating generators for furnishing excitingcurrent to all the three-phase generators in the station. The governors were furnished by the Lombard WaterWheel Governor Company. The governor is very wellshown in Fig. 8, and is driven by a belt connected to asmall pulley on the generator shaft. The excellent re-sult given by these governors in other installations leavesno question as to their satisfactory operation in this governor operates the gates for each full set of fourwheels. ELECTRICAL APPARATUS The electrical apparatus installed was manufactured bythe General Electric Company. In the main station thereare at present installed five 700 three-phase gen-
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