. The Street railway journal . pipe bends. The piping of the mainheader has been designed for the ultimate capac-ity of the plant, as is also the case with the ex-haust piping. The feed-water heater, which was furnished byJohn E. Angell & Company, of St. Louis, Mo.,is of i200-hp capacity and of the receiver type,arranged so that the exhaust steam can be takenfrom the heater for heating the entire buildingand offices of the company. Traps are furnishedfor draining the separators for the different en-gines and also for draining the heater. Thereare two boiler feed pumps, each of sufficient ca-pa
. The Street railway journal . pipe bends. The piping of the mainheader has been designed for the ultimate capac-ity of the plant, as is also the case with the ex-haust piping. The feed-water heater, which was furnished byJohn E. Angell & Company, of St. Louis, Mo.,is of i200-hp capacity and of the receiver type,arranged so that the exhaust steam can be takenfrom the heater for heating the entire buildingand offices of the company. Traps are furnishedfor draining the separators for the different en-gines and also for draining the heater. Thereare two boiler feed pumps, each of sufficient ca-pacity for the entire plant. They are of theBlake outside-packed plunger type with bronzeplungers. The engine room is 70 ft. long and 66 ft. 8 It contains four steam engines, each di-rect-connected to a There are twogenerating sets for the electric light and powerservice. One set consists of a Filer & Stowellheavy-duty Corliss engine, 18 ins. x 42 ins.,operating at 100 r. p. m., direct connected to. 134 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIX. No. 4. two 60-cycle, 2200-volt, two-phase, revolving field Allis-Chal-nicrs generators with a 22^-km, 125-volt, from the engine shaft by a Renold silent chain. Theother set consists of a Buckeye simple 13-in. x i8-in. engineand -a 125-kw Allis-Chalmers generator of the same type as
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