. Electric railway review . and tapers each way toward the end boilers. One side of theflue is a brick wall parallel with the outside wall of thebuilding which two walls with the reinforced concrete topand bottom, form the flue. and 16 feet 3 inches high. To hold the damper in shapefour straight bars %x3 Inches and 6 feet long are placedacross the concave side 4 feet 3 inches apart, and riveted atthe ends. The shaft carrying the damper is 2^/4 Inches Indiameter set in a step bearing at the bottom and with thetop bearing braced by three %x3-inch bars reaching to thestack walls. The boiler equip
. Electric railway review . and tapers each way toward the end boilers. One side of theflue is a brick wall parallel with the outside wall of thebuilding which two walls with the reinforced concrete topand bottom, form the flue. and 16 feet 3 inches high. To hold the damper in shapefour straight bars %x3 Inches and 6 feet long are placedacross the concave side 4 feet 3 inches apart, and riveted atthe ends. The shaft carrying the damper is 2^/4 Inches Indiameter set in a step bearing at the bottom and with thetop bearing braced by three %x3-inch bars reaching to thestack walls. The boiler equipment comprises ten 400-horsepowerBabcock & Wilcox boilers, with forged steel headers, de- 598 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW October, 1906. signed to give 75 degrees of superheat, the worlving pres-sure being 175 pounds per square inch. The boilers are tobe equipped with Roney stokers. Each boiler has a 5-inchsteam connection to the main header which is 10 inches ;■■■■■ /.:V///M/////////////////////////////////77777X. New Power Station. Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Com-pany—Plan and Elevation of Piping Connections forOne 1,500-Kilowatt Unit and Condenser. in diameter. Branches are taken off from the main headerat extra heavy cast-steel manifolds. The steam connectionsto the 1,500-kilowatt units are 8 inches in diameter and thoseto the 500-kilowatt units are 5 inches in diameter. All thehigh-pressure piping is designed with standard dimensions for carrying 250 pounds pressure and the low-pressure piping Isdesigned to 125-pound standards. The coal storage plant is served by a Gantry travelingcrane with a one-ton Kester bucket, and was furnished byFairbanks, Morse & Company of Chicago. Coal is dumpedinto a McCaslin single-roll crusher, motor-driven. The con-crete basin, in which the coal is piled, is 60 by 180 feet and14 feet deep and has a capacity estimated at 7,000 tons. Thecapacity of the coal bunker proper is about 600 tons. Theplant has a rated capacity for handl
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