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Identifier: streetrailwayjo241904newy (find matches)
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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VIEW, LOOKING SOUTHWEST, NOV. 19, 1901 the longitudinal firing and transverse aisle into four groups oftwo stories each, each group having a stack, a set of econo-mizers, an auxiliary mechanical draft and suitable piping con-nections to a group of four engines. The barometric jet con-densers stand in the aisle space of the boiler room next to theengine room wall, and are four in number, each serving aquarter of the plant. It will thus be apparent that there are four plants in one, orone plant with four independent divisions, each operative alone,yet tied together to operate as one. Detail examination will
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STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIV. No. I. show how the piping is connected between the four sectionsand how the condensers can relay each other, and, in fact, howall of the appropriate and reasonable exchange of service be-tween the quarters extends from the smoke flues and stacksthrough to piping, condensers and switchboard. The merit ordesirability of this grouping can only be proved by long ex-perience, but it has the advantage that no adverse results canfollow its adoption, it being rather in the nature of a permissivedivision in manipulation. The wide transverse aisle follows,partly from the character of the condensing plant and largelyfrom the observed tendency for auxiliary and other apparatus Since Kingsbridge, no large New York plant has been designedwithout multiple stacks. The Kingsbridge piping is well worth an inspection of anyone desiring to look into this extremely difficult and by nomeans inexpensive portion of such a property. It is of the veryhighest character, and

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