. The street railway review . lding is of brick and iron, 63 x 230 ft., divided intothree sections by fire walls; the middle one is 63 x 100 occupied by the en-gine room; the othertwo are of equal size,one devoted to the boilerroom and the other tooffices, workshop, make the engine andboiler rooms secureagainst the annual floodsof the Connecticut river,the floors are well abovehigh water mark whichis almost 30 ft. above the mean low water mark. To pro-tect the condenser pit which is but 1 i in. above low water, the old foundations werere-inforced by a of concrete. The
. The street railway review . lding is of brick and iron, 63 x 230 ft., divided intothree sections by fire walls; the middle one is 63 x 100 occupied by the en-gine room; the othertwo are of equal size,one devoted to the boilerroom and the other tooffices, workshop, make the engine andboiler rooms secureagainst the annual floodsof the Connecticut river,the floors are well abovehigh water mark whichis almost 30 ft. above the mean low water mark. To pro-tect the condenser pit which is but 1 i in. above low water, the old foundations werere-inforced by a of concrete. The boiler room equip-ment comprises eight300-h. p. Heine boilersarranged in batteries oftwo facing each other,Worthington feedpumps and Americanfeed water heaters. Theworking boiler pressureis 130 the engine room are eight cross-compound condensingBall & Wood engines with cylinders 14 and 27 x 16 in.,eight 220-k. w. General Electric generators, four 12 x 15 xlO-in. independent jet condensers and two 91^-in. air ENGINE ROOM.
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