. The Street railway journal . d then turns down 6 the water line. The feed pipes and the water col-umn connections are brass. All piping and fittings wheresubjected to boiler pressure are extra heavy and corre-spond to the Walworth Manufacturing Company stand-ard. Each boiler is suspended by six cast-iron has two manholes, one 11 ins. x 15 ins. in the top ofthe rear sheet and the other 10 ins. x 15 ins. in the fronthead below the tubes. The fronts are cast iron with two fire doors. The grateswere made by W. W. Tupper & Company and have spaces, ^-in: bars and a
. The Street railway journal . d then turns down 6 the water line. The feed pipes and the water col-umn connections are brass. All piping and fittings wheresubjected to boiler pressure are extra heavy and corre-spond to the Walworth Manufacturing Company stand-ard. Each boiler is suspended by six cast-iron has two manholes, one 11 ins. x 15 ins. in the top ofthe rear sheet and the other 10 ins. x 15 ins. in the fronthead below the tubes. The fronts are cast iron with two fire doors. The grateswere made by W. W. Tupper & Company and have spaces, ^-in: bars and an area of 36 sq. ft. The uptakesare cast iron, air-tight and fitted with hand dampers to beoperated from the floor. A sheet-iron flue with cross sec-tion 4 ft. x 10 ft. connects the uptakes with the , flue and all accessories were made by EdwardKendall & Sons, of Cambridgeport, Mass. Each boiler isequipped with a low-water alarm made by the AshcroftManufacturing Company. Two 6-in. x 4-in. x 6-in. Stilwell-. TRACK CONSTRUCTION THROUGH RECLAIMED SWAMP Bierce & Smith-Vaile duplex boiler feed pumps and aWainwright even-flow supplementary horizontal feed-waterheater are installed at the west end of the battery. Theheater contains 400 sq. ft. of heating surface and was madebv the Taunton Locomotive Manufacturing Company. PIPING All steam and water pipes subjected to boiler pressureare of best grade lap-welded steel tubing. All work above2\ ins. is flanged. The flanges are extra heavy, providedwith raised face and calking recess. All flanged fittingsare of extra heavy long-turn pattern made from the bestgrade of cast iron. May 3, 1902.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 533 The low-pressure piping is chiefly of lap-welded iron,all work above 4 ins. being flanged. Flanged cast ironpiping is used between the exhaust nozzles of the enginesand condensers and the automatic relief valves, for suctionpipes of the pumps and condensers, andfor the discharge pipes from the con-densers. The v
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