. The Street railway journal . The boiler equipment, which is located in the wing,in the rear of the engine room, consists of fourBabcock&Wilcox boilers of 250 h. p. each, and two Stirling boilers, station is such that the building can be moved up or downthe incline by means of wire ropes and hoists to adjust itto the height of the water in the river which has anextreme variation between low and high water of fortyfeet. Two hoists are provided and also safety ropes, andthe arrangement is such that the power of six men canoperate it. The water and steam pipes are provided withjunctions (the for
. The Street railway journal . The boiler equipment, which is located in the wing,in the rear of the engine room, consists of fourBabcock&Wilcox boilers of 250 h. p. each, and two Stirling boilers, station is such that the building can be moved up or downthe incline by means of wire ropes and hoists to adjust itto the height of the water in the river which has anextreme variation between low and high water of fortyfeet. Two hoists are provided and also safety ropes, andthe arrangement is such that the power of six men canoperate it. The water and steam pipes are provided withjunctions (the former of which are ten inches in diame-ter), so that attachments can be made at different stationsas conditions may require. The station has a pumpingcapacity of 2,000,000 gals., and the feedwater is liftedinto a tank near the boiler room, having a capacity of39,000 gals., the entire lift above low water being eightyfeet. Pittsburgh and Kanawha coal is employed, which isdelivered by carts from neighboring coal depots, being. CENTRAL BRIDGE FROM COVINGTON APPROACH. FORT THOMAS LINE—HORSE SHOE BEND. SUSPENSION BRIDGE—COVINGTON APPROACH. VIEW OF RIVER AND STEAMBOATS. FIG 8-VIEWS ON LINE OF CINCINNATI, NEWPORT &. COVINGTON RAILWAY. each of the same capacity on all, are provided with Roneymechanical stokers. The auxiliary steam equipment con-sists of a Webster purifier and pumps of the Blake hot well, which was formerly in the engine room, hasbeen removed to a corner in the rear of the boiler was rendered necessary as the vapors in the hot roomdestroyed the insulation on the trunk wires which passunder the floor in the basement. The feed and condensingwaters are obtained from the river, from which the stationis distant about 800 ft. The pumps for lifting the waterare located on the river bank, and are housed in a smallwooden building, provided with wheels and supported onan incline track laid on the sloping banks of the is delivered to the pumps from t
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