. The Street railway journal . the bottom 5 ft. of the walls, which are black, andthe roof trusses and crane are a dark red. The columns intheir rise through the building are enclosed in concrete, as asort of pilaster. There is a clear height of 25 ft. to the underside of the crane, which is a 15-ton hand-power traveling hoist,built by the Reading Crane & Hoist Works. There are prac-tically two rows of windows in the outside walls and also arow of clere-story windows in the partition wall above the 440 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIII. No. 12. boiler room, so that the engine room presents a
. The Street railway journal . the bottom 5 ft. of the walls, which are black, andthe roof trusses and crane are a dark red. The columns intheir rise through the building are enclosed in concrete, as asort of pilaster. There is a clear height of 25 ft. to the underside of the crane, which is a 15-ton hand-power traveling hoist,built by the Reading Crane & Hoist Works. There are prac-tically two rows of windows in the outside walls and also arow of clere-story windows in the partition wall above the 440 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIII. No. 12. boiler room, so that the engine room presents a lofty, well-lighted and pleasing interior. Between the boiler room and the railroad coal siding, whichis run on a trestle, there is space for some 3000 tons of coal;and in the outside wall there are six pairs of large double doorsthrough which coal is carried by a short haul from coal pile tofiring space. At each end of the boiler room there is also alarge opening, closed by a Kinnear rolling door. The floor, Engine Room. 8fe£-- PLAN OF POWER STATION AT CRANFORD which is paved with brick, is at grade level, and to the underside of the roof trusses there is a clear height of 22 ft. In theroof there are seven 24-in. ventilators. Fire hose is provided inboth rooms, attached to pipingextending from the city watersupply. The boiler plant consists, asstated, of horizontal tubularboilers, each of 72-in. shells,with 3^-in. tubes. The roomis planned for twelve all told,arranged in two groups on op-posite sides of a central crossgangway, where the feed pumpsand feed-water heater are locatedand where communication is hadwith the engine room. Threeof the boilers are yet to be in-stalled. Those now in place werebuilt by the Stewart BoilerWorks, of Worcester, Mass., andhave a shell 20 ft. long, with 86tubes, so that the heating sur-face is 1800 sq. ft. per 12 sq. ft. per boilerhorse-power, each boiler has acapacity of 150 hp, or 1800 forthe whole plant. The floor spacetaken
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