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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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is connected to a Wheelersurfacc condenser. There are thirty-fourboilers of 250 hp each, twenty-four of whichwere installed in 1893, when the station wasbuilt, and ten in 1898, when the Walker gen-erators were added. Twenty-four of theboilers were made by the Babcock & WilcoxCompany, and the remaining ten by theAultnian & Taylor Company, and are fur-nished with six economizers made by theGreen Fuel Economizer Company, of Mat-teawan, N. Y. The next largest station is the SouthernPower Station, situated at Fifty-SecondStreet and First Avenue, directly behind themain repair shops of the company. Thisstation was built1892, and is of asomewhat pecu-liar type. It con-tains six looo-hpcross - compoundcondensing Allisengines on themain floor, beltedto twelve GeneralElectric 400-kwfour-pole gener-ators placed onthe second floor.These engines oc-cupy floor spacerunning longitudi- this means the dynamo tenders can at all times see theengines on the main floor and be in easy communication
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THE SOUTHERN POWER STATION nally down the center of the ljuilding only, the sides beingsupported by the ccjlunins u))on which the roof rests. By the geFour with the engineer.The switchboardis at the end ofthis second floor.The engines are26 ins. X 48 ins.X 48 ins. stroke,running at 75 1. p.m., and 160 lbs.steam pressure. In1898 two West-inghouse com-pound, automaticcondensing en-gines of 500 hpeach were added,one direct connected to and the other driv-mg by belt a booster. The two boosters areof 1000 amps, capacity each. To each of theeight engines is connected a Wheeler sur-face condenser. Sixteen Babcock & Wilcoxwater-tube boilers of 250 hp each, equippedwith Wilkinson automatic stokers and fourGreen fuel economizers, were installed in1892, and have proved sufficient for carryingthe extra load of the looo-hp booster ca-pacity. The Third Avenue Power Station, atThird Avenue and First Street, has a totalcapacity of 4400 kw, distributed amongseveral different types of machinery. Wi

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