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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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of the P. & W. Ry., or within a few feet of theengine room floor. The rise and fall of the river level necessarily affectedalso the location of the condenser pumps, which, as willbe seen by the diagram already referred to, are located ina well. From this point they lift the water 20 ft. abovethe lowest water level, and then force it 8 ft., dischargingit into a cistern, from which point it is pumped to the con-densers. The same diagram also shows the construction of thecrib, which was an important feature in the installationof the plant, as the feed water is also taken from the river.It was found that the river water itself was too muddy foruse directly in the boiler, but if filtered somewhat it wasamply good for the purpose. The crib is made up of hem-lock plank laid 2 ins. apart, with a transverse plank every8 ft., and measures 100 ft. long x 8 ft. wide x 5 ft. high.The top is from 3 ft. to 5 ft. below the natural bed of theriver. It was then covered, first with broken stones and
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July, 1899.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 425 brickbats, and afterwards with gravel and sand, which pro-vided an excellent filtering material. The engine room illustrated on page 421 presents alight and attractive appearance from the fact that thewalls are painted white and are furnished at their bases denser, which is of the Laidlaw-Dnn-Gordon type. Thesecondensers are located in the basement, and obtain theirwater supply from the crib system already mentioned. The generators were built by the Westinghouse Electric& Manufacturing Company, are of 500-kw. capacity each,

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