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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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room which may be seenin the general view of the building. The pumps installed here are de-voted entirely to pumping water from the river for the boiler feed,condenser and house service. The water supply for the entire plantis taken from the Sangamon River through an intake crib built intothe bank of the river and water is drawn through two suction pipes,one 30 in. and one 8 in. in diameter. In the pump room are locatedthree Dean Bros. pumps, two of which arc house pumps I2x lox20 in. in size. The water ends of these pumps are located in thebasement of the pump house and the steam ends are situated on themain floor of the building, the water and steam cylinders being26 ft. 6 in. apart. This arrangement of the pumps was made neces-sary by reason of the unusual variation in the level of the SangamonRiver, which amounts to as much as 27 ft. The steam ends of thepumps are located on the main floor so that all of the machinerycan be operated from one level without requiring an attendant in
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968 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. XIV, No. 12. Ihc basement, and the w.iter cylinilers arc placed as lowas possible so as lo be able to take water wlien, the rueris at its lowest point. The house pumps are connectedto an 8-in. suction pipe and they have 6-in. discharges.The circulating pump, which is 24 x 40 x 24 in. in size,lias a 20-in. suction coimection and a i6-in. dischargeto the condcnstr. The water end of this pump is alsolocated 26 ft. 6 in. below the steam ends. The condenser is the Wheeler Admiralty surface type, having4,000 .sq. ft. of condensing surface, and is provided witha i()-in. outlet connecting to the J4-in. overflow piperunning to the river, which discharges into an overflowcrib, giving it a water seal so as to act as a syphon.The air pump is of the Edwards vertical type. .\ platform is built alongside the slack directly overthe boiler feed and hot well pumps previously mentioned,and on tbis platform is located a s,ooo-h p. WebsterStar vacuum feed water heater. The

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