. Electric railway review . Pittsburg & Butler Street Railway—Showing Concrete Abutmentof Thorn Creek Bridge. Pittsburg & Butler Street Railway—Showing Bridge at BryantUnder Construction. of water available for condensing purposes. The plant ison the line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and on a sidingof the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad, providing good trans-portation facilities for coal. The power house is 105 feet 10inches by 98 feet 7 inches. The building is divided into boiler and turbine rooms. sionally becomes. necessary and is many times neglectedbecause of the difficulty of working i
. Electric railway review . Pittsburg & Butler Street Railway—Showing Concrete Abutmentof Thorn Creek Bridge. Pittsburg & Butler Street Railway—Showing Bridge at BryantUnder Construction. of water available for condensing purposes. The plant ison the line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and on a sidingof the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad, providing good trans-portation facilities for coal. The power house is 105 feet 10inches by 98 feet 7 inches. The building is divided into boiler and turbine rooms. sionally becomes. necessary and is many times neglectedbecause of the difficulty of working in the cramped spaceabove the boilers, where the heat may be intense. The ashesare removed from under the boilers by means of an ash car,which is run on a track in a concrete tunnel built under thefiring floor from a point immediately in front of the fireboxes. Pittsburg & Butler Street Railway—Private Car and Standard Equipment. A monitor ventilator, extending over each section of thebuilding, provides ample ventilation. The building is welllighted. The doors of the power house are of the Wilsonroller steel pattern. The frame of the roof is of steel andthe roof is shingled with Bangor slate. The interior width of the boiler room is 48 feet 5 inches to a hydraulic lift, which raises the loaded car to the boilerroom level, whence it can easily be run to the ash boiler room equipment consists of four Babcock & Wil-cox boilers, which are arranged into two batteries. Theboilers are rated at 350 horsepower each. They are of thedouble-deck type and have 4-inch tubes and superheaters April 27. 1907 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW 549 capable of superheating the steam to 125 degrees F. AFord damper regulator and water regulator is fitted for eachboiler, and, while the boilers are fired by hand at present, theyhave been arranged so that st
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