. The Street railway journal . ated between thetwo central batteries. The stack proper, which rests on abrick stub 30 ft. high, is of steel, 11 ft. in diameter and 70ft. high, and has inside a lining. The top of thestack is only about 100 ft. abovethe boiler room floor, the unus-ually low height being due tothe fact that the boilers are pro-vided with forced draft. A forced-draught duct builtof concrete extends under thefloor in front of all of the boil-ers. This is connected to twolateral ducts each of which leadsto a 130-in. steam-driven Buf-falo Forge Company fan in-stalled in th
. The Street railway journal . ated between thetwo central batteries. The stack proper, which rests on abrick stub 30 ft. high, is of steel, 11 ft. in diameter and 70ft. high, and has inside a lining. The top of thestack is only about 100 ft. abovethe boiler room floor, the unus-ually low height being due tothe fact that the boilers are pro-vided with forced draft. A forced-draught duct builtof concrete extends under thefloor in front of all of the boil-ers. This is connected to twolateral ducts each of which leadsto a 130-in. steam-driven Buf-falo Forge Company fan in-stalled in the engine room base-ment. Forced draft is usedonly when the boilers are heav-ily loaded. The switch track alreadymentioned as running along therear side of the building hasunder it a wood hopper. Coalunloaded from the cars fallsjust outside the rolling steel main is carried under the floor just in front of all of theboilers. A similar feed line from a similar pump runsjust above the front of the boilers. At each battery the two. street Ry. Jovriiai TRANSVERSE SECTION
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