. The Street railway journal . VIEWS IN boilers, with wrought headers; two tandem com-pound engines built by the Robb Engineering Company,of Amherst, N. S.; two outside packed single cylinderdouble plunger feed pumps, each capable of feeding of boilers; two 225-kw. direct connected railway gen-erators, manufactured by the General Electric Company,together with switchboard and accessories. A completesystem of steam exhaust feed water and drip piping will beinstalled, and all fittings in high pressure piping will bemade of gun iron; all joints are of the Van Stone type, andeach
. The Street railway journal . VIEWS IN boilers, with wrought headers; two tandem com-pound engines built by the Robb Engineering Company,of Amherst, N. S.; two outside packed single cylinderdouble plunger feed pumps, each capable of feeding of boilers; two 225-kw. direct connected railway gen-erators, manufactured by the General Electric Company,together with switchboard and accessories. A completesystem of steam exhaust feed water and drip piping will beinstalled, and all fittings in high pressure piping will bemade of gun iron; all joints are of the Van Stone type, andeach boiler is equipped with a No. I2| Hayden & Derbydouble tube lifting injector. All the piping in the plantwill be covered by H. W. Johns fire-felt covering; Chap-man valves will be used. The steel roof trusses and purlins for the car barn were. PERTH ways. W. E. Cooke, representing the London owners, hascomplete engineering supervision of the erection of thenew plant. Milford, Attleboro & Woonsocket Street Railway The Milford, Attleboro & Woonsocket Street RailroadCompany is building an important link, 33 miles in length,which will connect the terminals of ten electric railroadsand pass by the depots of seven steam railroads. Uponthe route are five well-known pleasure resorts, includingPearl Lake, where a natural amphitheater seats 3000 per-sons. One section of the line connects Hopkinton, Bell-ingham, Franklin, Wrentham and Attleboro. Another July, 1899.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 455 section connects Caryville with Bellingham, Blackstoneand Woonsocket. The company will have two power stations. One willbe equipped with two 250-kw. Westinghouse enginetype generators, direct connected to steam engines work-ing at 120 The other will contain two direct connected generators, working at T
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