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Identifier: electricrailway431914newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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turbine room, which is 80 ft. x 175ft. This boiler room is large enough to house the initialequipment of eight 507-hp boilers with spare space fora duplicate battery under the same roof. The turbineroom also was designed large enough not only to housethe initial installation of two 6000-kw steam turbines,but foundations for one additional unit and spacefor a fourth were provided. These two buildings wereconstructed of plain and reinforced concrete, brick andsteel, and so designed and incased as to produce a thor-oughly fireproof structure resting on concrete caissonstaken down to rock or on concrete mats resting onRansome concrete piling driven to bed-rock or to a re-fusal. One end of the turbine room and one side of theboiler room are inclosed with corrugated iron so thatthe ultimate capacity of the station may be had at theleast possible cost. In designing the building the en-gineers made ample provision for natural illuminationand ventilation in the turbine and boiler rooms by pro-
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February 21, 1914.) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 405 viding large window glass areas with Fenestra steelsash. In addition to these a double-monitor skylightsurmounts the firing aisle of the boiler room and thelong axis of the turbine room, and the space betweenwindows in the monitor is inclosed with corrugatedasbestos siding. BOILER EQUIPMENT AND STACK For the initial installation of eight 507-hp Babcock &Wilcox boilers, a 13-ft. x 255-ft. dark-red radial brickstack has been erected by the H. R. Heinicke Companyon a concrete foundation resting on bed-rock. The sizeof this stack is sufficient to provide a square foot ofarea for each 36.25 hp, and it was designed to serve onlythe eight boilers, being installed with two batteries oneach side. Foundations for a second stack, as well asthat for the other row of boilers on the opposite side ofthe boiler room, have been provided at this time. Thepresent boiler equipment was designed to generate COAL AND ASH-HANDLING EQUIPMENT As mentioned ea

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