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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ead trolleys was de-layed by arbitrary police regulations, as such roads were consid- ihe water of the Uanubc being unliltcd for immediate boiler use.The power plant in Palfty street, which is shown herewith, develops3,800 h. p. with six horizontal tandem engines, two of 800 h. p.each, two of 700 h. p. each and the others of 400 h. p. each. Thepiston rods of these engines extend through the steam chest andconnect with the air pumps in the cellar lielow by means of a bellcrank. Two dynamos of 615 kw. each and two of 500 kw. each aredirect connected with the large engines. The small dynamos of 250kw. each arc also direct connected and make 115 r. p. m. In thei)oiler house arc eight Babcock & Wilcox Ixiilers, with 2,800 sq. ft.of heating surface each, usually working under a pressure of 150 lb.They also use purified water. This plant is fully supplied by twowater softening devices with a capacity of i,S50 gallons per houreach. The water is taken out of a pit at some distance from the
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BOII.ER ROOM, PALFFV ST. POWER H< BUDAPEST. ered loo dangerous. They were perm-.tted after experience had insome instances shown the ncedlessness of this over-precaution. Evennow the voltage is restricted by the police to 400 for sub-surfacetrolleys and 350 for overhead trolleys, measured at the power house The second named company began the change from horse to elec-tric power six years after the first installation of the experimentallines. Siemens & Halske installed the entire work for both com-panies. The entire 125 miles of road is supplied by three power houseswhich are so located that the greatest distance to which power istransmitted does not exceed 10 miles. .Mtcrnating current is notused. The first plant in Gartner street has seven horizontal compoundengines, with condensers. The plant has a capacity of 2,800 h. p.and 1,500 kw., and has 13 water tube boilers with a total heatingsurface of 27,000 sq. ft. Both the condensation water and the feedwater is drawn from pits c

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