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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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achine Co. Adjoining the boilerroom is a covered coal storage bin, 14 ft. x 78 ft., capable of slack and half run-of-mine. Owing to the close proximity ofcoal mines run-of-mine coal costs $1.70 per ton, and slack $1.20per ton delivered. Smoke from all boilers passes through one12-ft. smoke drum to a 200-ft. Custodis radial brick stack,which is supported on its own foundation outside the building.Draft is induced by a 6-ft. Buffalo forge fan, driven by a 8-in. x10-in. Sturtevant engine, there being also an induction motorfor reserve power. There is space in the boiler room for twoadditional boilers of the same size, and these are to be installedin the near future. They are to be equipped with Roneymechanical stokers. Adjoining the outside wall of the boiler 8o6 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIII. No. 22. room is a No. 9 Cochrane feed-water heater and purifier.Adjoining the heater is a Smith-Vaile duplex admiralty patternboiler feed nuran, size 10 ins. x 6 ins. x 12 ins. Connected with
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BOILER ROOM AND JONES UNDERFEED STOKERS—CANTON-AKRON RAILWAY the feed-water pump is a Ross feed-water filter which removesoil from the water before it enters the pump. In an open pitbelow the center of the engine room are two Blake simplex strainer is arranged to slide between a pair of angle-bars insuch a manner as to strain the water before it leaves the well.The cage formed by the strainer is packed with excelsior, andthe strainer may be readily removed for cleaning and repairs.As originally designed the Blake condenser took water fromthe river and discharged into the hot well. It was designed touse the hot well water as boiler feed, and in the piping ar-rangement the pumps were arranged for delivering the hotwell water to the feed-water heater with suction by-passed tothe intake well so that either hot or cold water could be used,as the occasion required. Lately, however, changes have beenmade in both the circulating and feed-water systems. A deepwell has been driven in the boil

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