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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. I.—PLAN AND SECTION OF ENGINE ROOM—CAPITAL TRACTION CO. boats or to carts to be carried away. The capacity of the be chuted down through three supplementary chutes set conveyor is 30 tons per hour. The coal used is run of between the boilers to the conveyer in the ash tunnel, and mine Cumberland. The coal bins are duplicate bins, can then be carried up again and dumped into the forward built of steel, and occupy the entire space above the boil- or main bin. ers, or 162 ft. 9J ins. x 60 ft. The bins are lined with Water for the boilers is pumped from a well in the base-
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12 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. Vol. XV., No. i. ment of the engine room, supplied from the canal, into a4000-gal. tank, from which it passes into two Loomis-Manning filters having a capacity of 300,000 gals, intwenty-four hours, thence through Deane feed pumps tothe primary heaters, then into a supplementary Berrymanheater, and thence to the boilers. Water can also be takenfrom the city mains. After entering the main tank itscourse is similar to that of the canal water. Should themain feed lines or pumps break down from any cause, twoMetropolitan injectors can be brought immediately intoaction on the auxiliary feed lines. The arrangement of the piping above the boilers allowsany battery to be cut out at any time, and, in fact, the en-tire arrangement of the piping and valves is such that anyengine or boiler or any length of pipe can be cut outshould occasion require without interfering with the run-ning of the plant. The piping is in duplicate and extraheavy in both pipe and fittings. The

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