. The Street railway journal . s, wassecured by placing them on a i^latform in the turl)ine roomparallel with the division wall. The boiler room is 165 ft. long by 82 ft. 6 in. wide. Thefiring aisle parallels the turbine room and the boilers arearranged in two rows—on either side. The tlimensions ofthe boiler room allow for an installation of 16 435-hp boil-ers, eight of which are installed at the present time. Be-low the boiler room is a basen-ient 15 ft. 6 in. in height, thefloor of which is about the level of the main turbine roomfloor. Besides the forced draft apparatus, the basementcontai
. The Street railway journal . s, wassecured by placing them on a i^latform in the turl)ine roomparallel with the division wall. The boiler room is 165 ft. long by 82 ft. 6 in. wide. Thefiring aisle parallels the turbine room and the boilers arearranged in two rows—on either side. The tlimensions ofthe boiler room allow for an installation of 16 435-hp boil-ers, eight of which are installed at the present time. Be-low the boiler room is a basen-ient 15 ft. 6 in. in height, thefloor of which is about the level of the main turbine roomfloor. Besides the forced draft apparatus, the basementcontains a storeroom, machine shop, oil rooni, locker andtoilet rooms. This basement was made unusually high inorder that the gondola cars of the Delaware & HudsonConipany could be run directly under the ash hoppers, andthe ashes removed and used for ballast witlmul m;d<ing useof the station ash handling apparatus. The main generating room is 165 ft. long by 54 ft. wide,and is designed to accommodate two Curtis turbo-gcncr-. \[EW OF INTERIOR TAKEN FROM THE ROOF yard is 319 ft. long by 117 ft. 6 in. wide, enclosed by re-taining walls entirely spanned by a Mead-Morrison gantrycrane, with a two-ton bucket having a capacity of over 50 tonsper hour. The approximate coal storage is 30,000 long tons. 784 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXL No. 19. The railroad companys coal cars are run in on a sidingand directly over reinforced concrete coal pockets, underwhich is an industrial railroad track on the same level asthe boiler room floor. On this industrial track run charg-ing cars, into which the coal from the concrete hoppersmay be dumped and wheeled directly in front of the the coal supply exceeds the •equirements of the
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