. The Street railway journal . VIEW OF ONE OF THE GENERATING UNITS west. For this purpose a space of over .200 ft. has been re-served for extensions to accommodate the future needs of thecompany. EQUIPMENT The present equipment includes three Babcock & Wilcoxwater-tube boilers of 350-hp nominal capacity each. Eachboiler contains in the setting a Babcock & Wilcox superheaterproportioned for about 100 degs. of superheat. Space is pro-vided in the building for five additional boilers of the samecapacity, which will be installed as rapidly as additional poweris required. Natural gas is being burne
. The Street railway journal . VIEW OF ONE OF THE GENERATING UNITS west. For this purpose a space of over .200 ft. has been re-served for extensions to accommodate the future needs of thecompany. EQUIPMENT The present equipment includes three Babcock & Wilcoxwater-tube boilers of 350-hp nominal capacity each. Eachboiler contains in the setting a Babcock & Wilcox superheaterproportioned for about 100 degs. of superheat. Space is pro-vided in the building for five additional boilers of the samecapacity, which will be installed as rapidly as additional poweris required. Natural gas is being burned under the boilers, March i8, 1905.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 503 Outgoing Lines. PLAN AND ELEVATION OF POWER HOUSE, SHOWING ARRANGEMENT OF GENERATING APPARATUS, STEAM PIPING, AUXILIARIES, ETC. 504 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. ri. but, as has already been said, provision is made for the use ofcoal if at any time the supply of natural gas becomes boilers are now equipped with flat grates set in an exten-sion furnace, but the setting is arranged so that chain gratestokers can be easily installed when the coal-handling ap-paratus is put in. The boiler room is equipped with a large open exhaust feed-water heater of the Stillwell-Bierce make, and with two verti-cal Atlantic type feed-pumps, built by the Dean BrothersSteam Pump Works, of Indianapolis. The engine room is provided with a traveling crane, built bythe Northern Engineering Works, of Milwaukee, of sufficient
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