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Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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the power house itself, which is awell-planned well-built fireproof structure. The exterior wallsare laced with standard pressed brick laid in three-fourths the building. There, bj means of a bucket elevator and in-clined conveyor, the material is discharged to storage binsat one side of the building and unloaded into cars, which takeit to points along the line where It can be used as ballast. Boilers and Stacks. ii. boiler equipment, set on concrete foundationing to bedrock, consist of three batteries, two of which includefour Stirling boilers, each having a capacitj of 235 horse-power and the third comprising one Atlas water tube boilerwith a capacity of 400 horsepower. Two of the Stirlingboilers discharge into one steel stack, 6 by SO feet, and theother two, with the Atlas boiler, into a stack 6 by 125 feet,also of steel. The shorter of these stacks is equipped withan engine driven blower, made by tie- Sturtevant company,by means of which enough draft can lie induced to give large
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Kokomo Marion & Western—General View of Power Plant, with Storage Battery House in Foreground. English bond, with headers in each fourth course, affording athorough bond into the wall. All of the interior surfaces inthe engine room which have not been enameled are facedwith Kokomo pressed sand brick of buff color and the remain-ing brick work is of the ordinary kiln-run quality. Tile roof-ing covers the building. The foundations above grade are of Indiana cut limestoneand below of concrete resting on bedrock. The floors are of concrete with smooth surface, the engineroom floor being supported on steel beams and under eachof the turbine units there is an independent concrete founda-tion to a depth of 13 feet 6 inches, foundations for the ex-citers, condensers and other auxiliaries being correspondinglymassive. All machinery foundations rest on bedrock. Coal Handling. Coal, consisting of a comparatively low grade of Indianascreenings, is brought in on a spur from the Lake Erie &am

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