. The Street railway journal . S BP*1 R*H. FIG. OF SALEM POWER STATION—LYNN & BOSTON RAILROAD CO. by-pass around the low pressure cylinder, arranged in sucha way that there is practically no loss of pressure in thereceiver. All pipes leading to the condensers from theengines are graded in such a way as to drain all waterinto the condensing chamber, the heater connectionsbeing arranged to admit of doing this. All drips fromthe steam pipes in the boiler room are returned by gravity the condensers. Fig. 1 shows the general arrangementof the piping in the basement, as well as an outlin
. The Street railway journal . S BP*1 R*H. FIG. OF SALEM POWER STATION—LYNN & BOSTON RAILROAD CO. by-pass around the low pressure cylinder, arranged in sucha way that there is practically no loss of pressure in thereceiver. All pipes leading to the condensers from theengines are graded in such a way as to drain all waterinto the condensing chamber, the heater connectionsbeing arranged to admit of doing this. All drips fromthe steam pipes in the boiler room are returned by gravity the condensers. Fig. 1 shows the general arrangementof the piping in the basement, as well as an outline of thebuilding. The building itself is of brick, as will be seen fromFig. 3, with a roof supported by iron trusses and coveredwith slate. The chimney is 160 ft. high, and has a cleardiameter inside of eight feet. It will be noticed that the direct to the boilers, the main being located sufficiently feed wires enter the building through a perforated stone
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