. The Street railway journal . pendently, and each can be cutout of connection with both live and exhaust piping sys-tems. The waste gases from the boilers will be carriedthrough two economizers, by means of mechanical exhaustdraft, without being delivered to the stack which will beseventy-five feet in height. The station will be fullyequipped with feedwater heaters, etc. The water supplywill be from an artesian well. The station is very compact, having a frontage onHutchinson Street of sixty-seven feet three and a halfinches, and being ninety feet deep. The engine roomwill occupy a depth of f
. The Street railway journal . pendently, and each can be cutout of connection with both live and exhaust piping sys-tems. The waste gases from the boilers will be carriedthrough two economizers, by means of mechanical exhaustdraft, without being delivered to the stack which will beseventy-five feet in height. The station will be fullyequipped with feedwater heaters, etc. The water supplywill be from an artesian well. The station is very compact, having a frontage onHutchinson Street of sixty-seven feet three and a halfinches, and being ninety feet deep. The engine roomwill occupy a depth of forty-five feet, and the boiler roomof the same. It will be of plain brick, with no attempt atornamentation, and will be absolutely fireproof. Thefuel will be dumped from the cars directly in front of theboilers, the cars for this purpose being run on a trestleextending parallel with the boilers, and discharging thefuel into a vault which will have a capacity of one weekssupply of fuel. The station is so designed that its capa-. FIG. 16—BONDINGTRACTION CO., CHUCK—ELECTRICPHILADELPHIA. city can be doubled, with very little additional expense,with increase of traffic. Line.—The line construction of the road differsmaterially from that adopted by other companies in Phil-adelphia. Span wire construction will not be used,bracket poles being employed throughout the , instead of being located on the same side of thestreet, as is usually done, will be set alternately on oppo-site sides of the street. The claims of advantage madefor this construction are that, in the first place, a moresymmetrical appearance is secured, and, in the secondplace, that in case of breakage of the trolley wire the ten-sion will not fold all the brackets of a section to thedestruction of the line. The company will use a No. 00trolley wire. The size adopted by the other Philadelphiacompanies is the No. o. The method of bonding and the provision made forthe return circuit differs also inseveral r
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