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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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by the Aultman & Taylor Machinery Company,Mansfield, Ohio. The extension furnaces under the original Bab-cock & Wilcox boilers are also now being replaced by standard are two 300-kw rotaries located in the power plant, this rotaryequipment being in duplicate of that at the new sub-stations.The exciters include a steam and a motor-driven unit, the latterbeing used in preference to the steam-driven unit. The switchboard equipment is located at the north end of thebuilding beneath the gallery which carries the step-up trans-formers. It contains thirteen panels at present, including,from left to right, two exciter panels, three generator panels, 148 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXV. No. 4. four high-tension feeder panels and four 650-volt direct-currentrotary and feeder panels. Spaces are left for one more gen-erator panel and two more high-tension feeder panels. Thestep-up transformer equipment consists at present of three135-kw and three 300-kw transformers. The electrical ap-
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THE DEPOT AND SUB-STATION-AT SOUTH ROCXWOQD, SHOW-ING STANDARD COMBINED CONSTRUCTION paratus was supplied by the Westinghouse Electric & Manu-facturing Company. ROLLING STOCK The rolling-stock equipment now includes twenty-one pas-senger cars, two express cars and two freight or constructionlocomotives. The company also owns thirty-five freight cars,including box, flat, gondola and ballast cars, with which it iscarrying on a considerable freight business; these were usedin the construction work upon the road, but are now being re-tained for regular service. The new cars bought to provide for the extension includetwelve 30-ton cars, 52 ft. long, which were built by the JohnStephenson Company. They are mounted on Peckham extraheavy M. C. B. trucks, and are equipped with four No. 76 West-inghouse motors (75 hp) and L-4 Westinghouse controllers.The cars are all equipped single-ended, with the control ap-paratus located in the enclosed front platform, used as a cab;this greatly simplif

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