. The Street railway journal . lled onthe boiler room floor behind the smoke stack, a 4-in. feed feed lines are connected by a 3-in. riser. The feed line forthe three drums of each boiler is taken off this riser betweentwo globe valves in the riser. This arrangement permitsfeeding any or all of the boilers from either or both of thepumps. 8i8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIX. No. 19. MAIN STEAM HEADERThe vertical loop system of the main steam headers con-sists of two lines of lo-in. pipe placed one above the otherwith centers 9 ft. apart and connected to each other at bothends by return bend
. The Street railway journal . lled onthe boiler room floor behind the smoke stack, a 4-in. feed feed lines are connected by a 3-in. riser. The feed line forthe three drums of each boiler is taken off this riser betweentwo globe valves in the riser. This arrangement permitsfeeding any or all of the boilers from either or both of thepumps. 8i8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIX. No. 19. MAIN STEAM HEADERThe vertical loop system of the main steam headers con-sists of two lines of lo-in. pipe placed one above the otherwith centers 9 ft. apart and connected to each other at bothends by return bends. The boilers feed into the lowersection of the loop and the mains to the engines are taken turbine exciter set. The two direct-current units consist ofan Allis-Chalmers Corliss cross-compound engine driving alooo-kw, 600-volt General Electric generator. The otherunits include the turbo-generator, a Hamilton-Corliss en-gine driving a 600-kw generator, and a Mclntosh-Seymourengine connected to a 325-kw generator. Both of these. VERTICAL LOOP SYSTEM OF THE MAIN STEAM HEADER
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