. The street railway review . ll wiring from Ihe generators to the switchboardis carried under the engine room floor. Adjoining the switchboard is the telephone booth and near itare a tool room, a dressing room and the oflicc for the engineers. The steam piping, which was cotuplcted under the direction ofMr. A. C. Thompson, consists of a main header with a brancli foreach engine turned from it. and a Bundy automatic trap for returning hot water drippings to the boilers. In the boiler room are two 300-I1. p. boilers, an .Vmcrican feedwater heater and two Snow puiups. Coal storage pockets are di
. The street railway review . ll wiring from Ihe generators to the switchboardis carried under the engine room floor. Adjoining the switchboard is the telephone booth and near itare a tool room, a dressing room and the oflicc for the engineers. The steam piping, which was cotuplcted under the direction ofMr. A. C. Thompson, consists of a main header with a brancli foreach engine turned from it. and a Bundy automatic trap for returning hot water drippings to the boilers. In the boiler room are two 300-I1. p. boilers, an .Vmcrican feedwater heater and two Snow puiups. Coal storage pockets are di-rectly in front of the boilers, and coal is deposited in the pocketsthrough a steel-lined chute leading from a railroad siiling parallel companys property, it. will be useil as a resort for piciiicing insummer an<l skating in winter. The car barn is located parallel to the railway near the jiuwerhouse. It is 250 X 50 ft., and contains (our tracks with a shop,iii<l etnployes rixim in the end nearest the power house; the. l-IO. .s Til HAVANA liuildiMg and pits are heated with exl|aust steam from ihc powerhouse, which is pipeil underground from the latter. The buildingand special work leading from it are lighte<l with enclosed arclights; the pits and rooms arc lighted with incandescent sides of the pits are of brick and arc built 2 ft. outside of and
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