. The street railway review . CONNECTION I GENERATORS EQUALIZING ON NEGATIVE Hen bed of concrete which 1- - ] ft. thick under the supportingcolumns and 1 | | ft. thick under the four stacks along th<of the building. The boiler room has an ultimate capacity for boiler horse power, of which h. p. arc now in commission and h. p. nal are now being installed. The boilei an Babcock & ■ make, with wrought steel headet and insidi hand hob zoo ft, high and i,!1. ft inside diametei lined throughout With brick t protect the metal. piping 1- extra heavy welded flange pipe with extra
. The street railway review . CONNECTION I GENERATORS EQUALIZING ON NEGATIVE Hen bed of concrete which 1- - ] ft. thick under the supportingcolumns and 1 | | ft. thick under the four stacks along th<of the building. The boiler room has an ultimate capacity for boiler horse power, of which h. p. arc now in commission and h. p. nal are now being installed. The boilei an Babcock & ■ make, with wrought steel headet and insidi hand hob zoo ft, high and i,!1. ft inside diametei lined throughout With brick t protect the metal. piping 1- extra heavy welded flange pipe with extra heavy Each of the four mam headers arc id and 20 in. in diameter and all piping is earned overhead on galleries formed of S-in. [-beams supported From the wall beams and longitudinal and having Open grating floors. The arrangement makes all. SHOWING ARRANGEMENT OF 1IPIM. AND RONE1 MECHANICAL STOKERS. June 20. STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 335 12 16 parts of the piping readily accessible for repairs and as the window -of the building extend above the galleries there is good light at allparts of the piping system. The main headers are fitted with expansion joints, and automatic check valves placed at thesteam nozzles on top of the boilers. All condensation water isreturned to the boilers by means of the Holly gravity return 53Ihe piping was installed by the Thomas C. Basshmmore. 1 he first and second floors of the boiler room are made of redbrick arches and cinder concrete fill-ing on the Rapp system. The boilers are furnished withRoney mechanical stokers of the standard type in-tailed by Westing-house, Church, Kerr & Co. Each of stokers is driven by two 5-h. p. Westinghouse standard eng one engine being placed at each of a I he 5tok capable of burning either b Soft coal, either separately
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