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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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FIG. 10.—INTERIOR OF BOILER ROOM, ORLEANS RAILROAD, SHOWING LEADERSFEED PUMP AND PIPING, STACK STUB, ETC. cast iron with Chapman low pressure gate valves locatedas shown in Figs. 7 and 9. Condensing water is takenfrom artesian wells in the rear of the building and from thenavigation canal in front and by the arrangement of theinjection pipe with by-pass as shown in Figs. 9, 11 and12 both canal and well water may be u.sed at thesame time for either or both condensers. The wellwater has a constant temperature of 70 degs. F. through-out the year while the canal water varies from 40 degs. F.in winter to 85 degs. F. in summer. 426 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XII. No. 7. The overflow pipes are placed under the basement floor tion is received would materially raise the temperature ofand discharge into street gutters from which water passes the injection above normal. to the Orleans drainage canal two blocks in the rear of The feedwater and purifying systems begin with the
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FIG. 9—PLAN OF POWER STATION—ORLEANS RAILROAD. building. The discharge was placed as it is because there two sources of supply, the artesian wells and the naviga-is almost no current in the drainage canal, and by discharg- tion canal. A water main is placed parallel with the partying the overflow in the same general locality as the injec- wall as shown and joined with the injection at each end of JUI^Y, 1896.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 427 the engine room basement and outside of the main gateinjection valves. Each of the duplex feed pumps and eachof the condenser feed pumps are joined to the water main.The condenser feed pumps take water from either the dis-charge hot wells of the condenser or from the water main

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