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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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lissengines, so that the plant was only crippled to the extentof retiring three small generators during this operation. main and the engine room main; these have separateconnections to each boiler and engine and form a completeduplicate system. This system of piping proved very usefulduring the year 1891, when the fly wheel upon the No. 2Corliss engine burst and cut the engine room main in two;this accident caused considerable damage to the buildingand machinery, but as soon as the debris was cleared awayand new wire connections made the other engines were May, 1898.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. ready for work, being supplied with steam from the boilerroom main. The feed water piping systems, pumps, heaters, etc., arealso arranged in duplicate, and water is supplied to the The first six boilers were equipped with Murphysmokeless furnaces, some of which have been in constantservice since the plant first started, except while their boil-ers were being cleaned, and with the excellent chimney
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plant through two separate water meters, which are con-nected to different lines of the citys water mains, so thatup to the present time there has never been a condition un-der which it was necessary to shut down the plant. draft, the latter amounting to 1 1-8 ins. water pressure, theoriginal furnaces and arches are still in service and goodcondition. Bituminous nut and slack coal is used as fuel,and with the exception of a very faint vapor no smoke is 242 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XIV. No. 5. noticed escaping from the chimney used in connection withthese boilers. The boilers, which were erected and put in service thefirst of this year, are equipped with the latest design ofAmerican stokers, which are of the under feed type; a viewof this portion of the boiler room being shown by Fig. 1.These furnaces are connected to a self-sustaining brick-lined steel chimney, and the draft is supplemented by twoSturtevant fans driven by small vertical engines, as it isnecessary to force the air

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