Image from page 180 of “The street railway overview” (1891)

Image from page 180 of “The street railway overview” (1891)

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Identifier: streetrailwayrev04amer
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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THE CITY OF ANACONDA, MONTANA. used in the different processes of concentrating and smelt-ing the ore. At the initial and larger plant the water wheels consistof 3 Leffel horizontal shaft, double discharge, turbinewheels of 300-horse-energy each and every, which are shown in theaccompanying engraving. There are also three Pelton wheels of 125 horse-energy each and every, which are kept as reserve. The powerhouse is a substantial structure of stone and brick, 60x130feet. The water wheels are in the basement and are beltedof a six-inch line shaft on the floor above, which in turntransmits its power by link belts to the dynamos. The arc and incandescent machines are at one end, andalso the Thomson-Houston railway generators operatingthe street railway. The refinery energy is supplied byeight Edison 100 K. W. 500-volt generators, divided into two systems of four machines. Every method^has its fourdynamos connected in series and runs at two,000 voltspressure. The line consists of two constructive and two neg-ative wire

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