. The Street railway journal . FIG, 7.—BOILER ROOM—NEWARK. to which respectively two and one feeders of 500,000 c. are run. A total number of thirty-one feeders isrun from this station, the longest being three miles inlength. The switchboard is also equipped with Thomson re-cording wattmeter, and readings as well as coal and waterrecords which are taken regularly. The average maximum load for the station, before theintroduction of the 1500 k. w. which was started about FIG. 8.—SWITCHBOARD ON RAISED GALLERY—NEWARK. by a small feedwater pump located in the pump oil reservoir
. The Street railway journal . FIG, 7.—BOILER ROOM—NEWARK. to which respectively two and one feeders of 500,000 c. are run. A total number of thirty-one feeders isrun from this station, the longest being three miles inlength. The switchboard is also equipped with Thomson re-cording wattmeter, and readings as well as coal and waterrecords which are taken regularly. The average maximum load for the station, before theintroduction of the 1500 k. w. which was started about FIG. 8.—SWITCHBOARD ON RAISED GALLERY—NEWARK. by a small feedwater pump located in the pump oil reservoir tank is in one of the rooms above the en-gines and at one end of the boiler room. Above this tankis an iron frame made to hold a number of pans of such asize that an attendant can handle them with ease. Thesepans are fitted with tubes in which are canvas is delivered to the station in barrels and is pumped tothese pans, strained through the cloth andcaught in the reservoir tank immediatelyunderneath. From
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