. The Street railway journal . 766 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVI. No. PLAN OF MAIN PIPING LAYOUT IN THE POWER STATION OF THE TOLEDO & INDIANA RAILWAY side of the boiler room wall. The stack rests on an octagonalfoundation 18 ft. across the top, 22 ft. at the base and 20 The shaft is heavy, being formed of }4-in. plates at thetop, increasing to 7-16-in. at the bottom, which is flared to adiameter of 14 ft. The stack is heavily bolted to the founda-tions and no guys are used. A lining of brick 8 extends to a height of50 ft. from the foundation. ENGINES There are two
. The Street railway journal . 766 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVI. No. PLAN OF MAIN PIPING LAYOUT IN THE POWER STATION OF THE TOLEDO & INDIANA RAILWAY side of the boiler room wall. The stack rests on an octagonalfoundation 18 ft. across the top, 22 ft. at the base and 20 The shaft is heavy, being formed of }4-in. plates at thetop, increasing to 7-16-in. at the bottom, which is flared to adiameter of 14 ft. The stack is heavily bolted to the founda-tions and no guys are used. A lining of brick 8 extends to a height of50 ft. from the foundation. ENGINES There are two tandemcompound Corliss type en-gines, built by the C. & Company. The cyl-inders are 22-in. and 42-in. stroke. They op-erate at 107 r. p. m. and arerated at 900-hp each. Steamis taken from beneath thefloor, and in addition to thethrottle valve, a butterflyvalve is placed in the steamline, operated by an auto-matic tripping device fromthe governor, which posi-tively shuts off the steamwhere the speed increasesbeyond a prearranged engine is d
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