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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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iedtogether with cross connections, so that any of thepiunps may supply water for any of the boilers.From the feed mains 2,/3-iu, branches are taken forihc boilers, one branch rising each side of each bat-tery. From the cold water feed main are also takenI/i-t- branches for supplying water to operateboiler-tube cleaners, and to wash the boilers. Asone pair of feed pumps can supply the hot feed to the boilers, coldwater under pressure may always be available for auxiliary pur-poses. The feed pumps are the Atlantic type of twin, vertical, double-acting boiler feeders, made by Dean Bros., of Indianapolis, withsteam cylinders 14 x 24 in. and water cylinders 10 x 24 in. Eachpump, when operating with steam at 140 lb. pressure and at aspeed of 40 strokes per minute, has a capacity of 325 gallons perminute against 180 lb. boiler pressure. The pumps are fitted withbrass removable liners; the valves are in nests and are convenientlyremovable with the scats when necessary. The service pumps, two
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ixlLKK KIX;.M Of .SEW POWER STATION—TWIN (IIV HAIIIl TKA.NSIT 10. 448 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol XIV, No. 7. in number, are of the Dean Bros, horizontal duplex type, t2 and16 X 18 in. In size, and when supplied with steam at 110 lb. pressure,operating at 45 strokes per minute, will deliver 1,400 gallons o(water per minute against a pressure of 40 lb. per sq. in The feed-w.Ttcr heater is of the open type, made by the Stilwell-Biercc & Sniith-Vaile Co., and is 11 fl. 6 in. x 6 ft. 7 in. x 16 ft. 4 in.high and is set on a platform 10 ft. 3 in. above the boiler room floor.A 14-in. steam inlet and 8-in. outlet are provided, file exhaust from outlets are placed at each generator, one at each exciter unit andthree on each switchboard gallery. The station is served by a 40-ton electric traveling hoist, fur-nished by the Whiting Foundry & Equipment Co., and the workof installing machinery was further facilitated by laying a railroadtrack into the building, enabling loaded cars to be

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