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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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e brick and concrete, car-ried down to solid rock. The building is equally divided intotwo rooms, each 54 ft. x 94 ft., there being a fire wall between.The boiler-room floor is 6 ft. below the level of the engineroom, and a pit below one-half of the engine room is 13 ft. deep. Two 300-hp Stirling boilers are installed at present, andthere is space in the house for four more of the same size. Theseboilers are of standard design, each having 3200 sq. ft, of heat- 94 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIV. No. 3. ing surface, with plain grates having 64 sq. ft. of grate surface.They are guaranteed for 50 per cent overload and run at 150lbs. steam pressure. Each has two ^y2-m. roll-pops, with Reli-ance water columns and extra water alarms. The companyhas a gas well adjoining the house, and it is used for heatingand lighting the offices, and at times the pressure is strongenough to enable its use in the boilers, and they are providedwith gas burners in the arch above the door. There is a space
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REPAIRING CARS OUT OF DOORS of 18 ft. in front of the boilers, arranged for coal storage, andthe boilers are 12 ft. from the division wall, leaving ampleroom for the piping and for the pumps. The water supply is taken from a 14-ft. well at the side of theriver, the well being provided with a filter. The condenserintake is a 12-in. cast-iron pipe, and there is also a 6-in. feed-water line. The condensers are of theWheeler surface type, and are located inthe pit below the engine-room floor. Theair and circulating pumps, of the Laidlaw-Dunn-Gordon type, measure 10 ins. x 12ins. x 14 ins. x 18 ins., and are set at theside of the condensers. The intake lineis 216 ft. in length, and there is a lift of 22ft. for the condenser water. Between thecondensers there is a hot well consistingof a 4 ft. x 12 ft. steel tank. The hot wellreceives all water of condensation and thejacketing water from the engine bearings.Water is taken from the hot well by low-duty Laidlaw-Dunn-G o r d o n hot-wellpumps,

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