. The Street railway journal . ilers, if required in the the boiler room there are two Worthing-ton boiler feed pumps, each of sufficient capa-city for feeding 2000 hp of boilers. These arearranged to take water either from the hotwell or from the lake. The water supply wasoljtained by building a dam across a naturalravine, through which flowed a small width of this lake will average about 300ft. X 3000 ft. long, with an average depth of 14ft., giving an ample and permanent supply ofpure water, which rerpiires no treatment. Inthe boiler room there is also one 2000-hp Stil-
. The Street railway journal . ilers, if required in the the boiler room there are two Worthing-ton boiler feed pumps, each of sufficient capa-city for feeding 2000 hp of boilers. These arearranged to take water either from the hotwell or from the lake. The water supply wasoljtained by building a dam across a naturalravine, through which flowed a small width of this lake will average about 300ft. X 3000 ft. long, with an average depth of 14ft., giving an ample and permanent supply ofpure water, which rerpiires no treatment. Inthe boiler room there is also one 2000-hp Stil-well-Bierce open type feed-water heater. Themain header is of heavy wrought iron pipe, 16ins. in diameter, with rolled steel in the piping are all wide are of the Fairbanks type and areequipped with automatic direct-lift damperregulators. The steam piping and fittings are extra heavy. Coal storage is arranged along one side of the boiler room,so that cars can be run on a trestle and dumped into bins. POWER HOUSE, POND AND PARK OF CINCINNATI, GEORGETOWN & PORTSMOUTH RY. i February 21, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 291 below, wliich have a capacity of 400 tons, facilitating handling. The engine room floor is 8 ft. above that of the boiler foundations are of stone with Portland cement are foundations for three cross-compound engines, to-gether with foundations for exciter engines, rotary convertersand a switchboard. There is a space at one end of the engineroom, measuring 14 ft. x 45 ft., partitioned off for the trans-former room. At the opposite end of the engine room is apump pit measuring 22 ft. x 45 ft., the floor of this pit being 14ft. below the level of the engine room floor. There are at present installed two cross-compound condens-ing Hamilton Corliss engines. The dimensions of cylindersare, high pressure, 24 ins., low pressure, 44 ins. x 42-in. are intended to operate at 90 r. p. m., and are designedfor a
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