. The street railway review . INTERIOR OF ENGINE ROOM. NEW BEDFORD ST.\TION-FILER & STOWELL ENGINES. the solid end type, with phosphor bronze boxes, adjustable for valve gear is of the liberating type with short angles of traveland so designed as to bring all stresses as near as possible in thesame plane. Both steam and exhaust valves are actuated by sepa-rate wrist plates and eccentrics, the wrist plate being provided with As a precaution against possible heating of the main bearings, theside and bottom shells are cast with ?4-in. heavy wrought iron pipesfor water circulation. The wa
. The street railway review . INTERIOR OF ENGINE ROOM. NEW BEDFORD ST.\TION-FILER & STOWELL ENGINES. the solid end type, with phosphor bronze boxes, adjustable for valve gear is of the liberating type with short angles of traveland so designed as to bring all stresses as near as possible in thesame plane. Both steam and exhaust valves are actuated by sepa-rate wrist plates and eccentrics, the wrist plate being provided with As a precaution against possible heating of the main bearings, theside and bottom shells are cast with ?4-in. heavy wrought iron pipesfor water circulation. The water for this service is taken directfrom the city mains and the circulation is maintained by the citypressure. After performing its office by passing through the cir-. ILAN AND CROSS SECTION OF PIPING. unhooking device to permit the working of all the valves by the engine is furnished a receiver of the horizontal type, con-nected to both high and low pressure cylinders by a system nfpiping and valves, which, together with the connections between I hecylinders and the independent condensing apparatus, permit theengine to be operated as compound condensing or compound non- culating pipes in the shells, the water flows to a tank located in thebasement of the power house, and from this it is fed directly intothe boilers. To provide there being at any time an insufli-cient supply of water passing tlirougli llic circulating pipes in the pil-low block shells to meet the boiler requirements, provision is made bymeans of a globular float in the tank, for automatically opening a 886 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. [Vol. XI, No. 12. valve located in a separate pipe and admitting water to the tank directfrom the city mains. It will therefore be noted
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