. The Street railway journal . fuelsupply. The building is a large brick structure of unusually attractivedesign. It is divided into two wings, the engine room, 61 ft. x112 ft., and the boiler room, 50 ft. x 112 ft. At the side of theboiler room there are coal bunkers, 22 ft. x 112 ft., having acapacity of 1000 tons. There is a steel I-beam trestle for dump-bottom coal cars. The roofs are iron truss with slate, and thereis a stack 150 ft. 6 ins. tall, with 7-ft. flue. It is constructed ofradial brick and rests on a square base within the boiler boiler equipment consists of four 300-hp
. The Street railway journal . fuelsupply. The building is a large brick structure of unusually attractivedesign. It is divided into two wings, the engine room, 61 ft. x112 ft., and the boiler room, 50 ft. x 112 ft. At the side of theboiler room there are coal bunkers, 22 ft. x 112 ft., having acapacity of 1000 tons. There is a steel I-beam trestle for dump-bottom coal cars. The roofs are iron truss with slate, and thereis a stack 150 ft. 6 ins. tall, with 7-ft. flue. It is constructed ofradial brick and rests on a square base within the boiler boiler equipment consists of four 300-hp Babcock &Wilcox boilers, arranged in two batteries, separated by a pas-sageway. An 18-in. brick wall is builtad between the two boilers of each boiler has 144 4-in. tubes, 18 , and the outside measurement ofeach boiler is 9 ft. x 16 ft. Each has two42-in. steam drums, 20 ft. long, and of1 1-16-in. open-hearth steel tested at56,000 lbs. The boilers are designed tocarry 160 lbs. steam pressure. The main. CROSS SECTION, SHOWING PIPING IN HEBRON POWER PLANT 148 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 5. steam header is 12 ins. in diameter, and the connections have2-in. flanges. A Walworth valve, having an 18-in. gate,separates the two sets of boilers, and each boiler is also fittedwith a separate valve, so that any of the four may be cut are also separate valves on the tops of the boilers. As already intimated, natural gas is used for fuel is received through a 4-in. pipe, tapped from an , supplying the city of Newark, and passing a short dis-tance from the power station. The pressure in the main line every morning by the gas company. The gas burners are amodification of the Klein type, furnished by Tate, Jones &Company, of Pittsburg. There are three sets of burners foreach boiler, two at the sides and one above. The center burneris 14 ins. above the grate inside the center door, and throws itsflames through the center towards the
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