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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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fire pump is automatic in its action and will bekept under steam and ready for immediate use at all times.A fire brigade will be organized among the workmen in theshop, who, by frequent drilling, are to be kept thoroughlyproficient in the handling of the fire-fighting equipment. Anemergency hospital in charge of a competent nurse andequipped with all necessary surgical appliances, will be main-tained on the premises, for rendering first aid to injured em-ployes. The boiler house is 42 by 90 feet. The boiler plant con-sists of four 250-horsepower water-tube boilers, equipped withmechanical stokers, damper regulators and feedwater regu-lators, and fed by two compound duplex pumps, each of whichis of sufficient capacity to supply all boilers. The powerhouse portion of the same building, which is 80 by 60 feetin size, contains two 300-kilowatt generators, driven by hori-zontal tandem compound condensing engines, and one 100-kilo-watt generator of the same type, driven by a vertical cross-
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Empire Bridge Companys Plant at Elmira, N. Y. built in 1895, and operated up to 1900, in connection with anolder establishment of the same kind located in Elmiraproper and known as the south shop. Operations have heretofore been conducted in a singlebuilding, 90 feet wide by 400 feet long, while the enlargedplant contemplates not only an extension to the originalbuilding, known as the main bridge shop, making it 215 by 528feet in size, but the construction of a boiler and power house,machine shop, templet shop and a forge shop. All buildingsare of steel construction, column bearing, with brick curtainwalls, concrete foundations and slate or slag roofs. The present plant and equipment gives employment toabout 250 men and has an output of about 15,000 tons of steelbridge and building work per annum. When the enlargedestablishment is in full operation more than twice this num-ber of men will be required, and, with the installation of new-machinery, which is all of the most modern type, t

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