. Electric railway journal . Hoosac Tunnel Power Station—Main Circuit Breakers inSwitch House may be taken direct from a 6-in. supply connected to aservice pump under the turbine room or from a hot-welltank located between the two pumps. All of the steam-driven auxiliaries exhaust into a Hoppes feed-water heaterhaving a rated capacity of 4000 hp. Provision is also. Hoosac Tunnel Power Station—Operating Switch Board made for a supply of feed water from the city mains incase of emergency. All feed water is weighed by a Wilcoxwater weigher before passing through the feed service pump wh
. Electric railway journal . Hoosac Tunnel Power Station—Main Circuit Breakers inSwitch House may be taken direct from a 6-in. supply connected to aservice pump under the turbine room or from a hot-welltank located between the two pumps. All of the steam-driven auxiliaries exhaust into a Hoppes feed-water heaterhaving a rated capacity of 4000 hp. Provision is also. Hoosac Tunnel Power Station—Operating Switch Board made for a supply of feed water from the city mains incase of emergency. All feed water is weighed by a Wilcoxwater weigher before passing through the feed service pump which supplies water for all miscel- laneous purposes was furnished by the Piatt Iron has an 8-in. discharge and a 10-in. suction pipe whichextends down into the condenser intake flume. The mainsteam pipe connections from the boilers are attached to a12-in. loop which is carried down under the boiler roomfloor at each end of the room and is continued under thefloor parallel to the partition wall between the turbine andboiler rooms. From this header all the main and auxiliarylive-steam lines are taken off under the floor. The turbineconnections are 10 in. in diameter. Each of the twoturbines has a free exhaust connection 24 in. in diameter,and both of these connections discharge into an exhaustpipe 32 in. in diameter which leads up through the roof.
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