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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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chplate covers five joints of other plates and no joints occurwhere the web plates join. Outside of the web plates sur-rounding the rim is a strip of one inch plate fourteen in-ches in depth riveted through the rim by rivets every 11^ins. and outside of this is another strip of one inch platefive inches in depth, also riveted through the rim by thesame number of rivets. The heads of both these lines ofrivets are countersunk. The wheels are fitted complete on the floor of theworks of the manitfacturers at Milwaukee before shipmentand all holes are drilled within one-quarter inch of theirsize. When the wheels were erected in place at the powerhouse, the bolt holes were reamed out and turned rivetsdriven in them. The wheels have not as yet been turned,but are so accurately constructed that they vibrate butlittle when running. It is proposed to turn the wheels assoon as opportunity offers. The stack is of brick 200 ft. high, with core ten feet i8o STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XII. No. 3.
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o Q. O Ll_O 2O1- u in diameter. The foundation con-sists of four feet of concrete, thirty-five feet square, upon which is laidgranite rubble to the depth of tenfeet. Above this the stack risesoctagonal in section to a height ofthirty-five feet. From this point itis circular in section tapering fromtwenty feet in diameter at thirty-five feet above the octagonal baseto 13 ft. 9 ins., fifteen feet from thetop. At the crown it is eighteenfeet in diameter. The general con-struction is shown in Fig. 5. There are three batteries ofBabcock & Wilcox boilers of 500h. p. each, each boiler containing252 four inch tubes, eighteen feetlong and designed for a pressure of180 lbs. The boilers are faced withwhite glazed brick, giving a veryhandsome appearance. The econo-mizer is of the Green type and of2000 h. p. capacity. It contains560 tubes and is arranged with by-pass so that it can be thrown inand out of circuit as desired. The passage of the feedwateris first into the primary heater,then into

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