. The Street railway journal . SECTION OF BOILER ROOM, MARION STATION FLAME PLATE AND ASH-PIT BELOW BOILERS the company undertook the task of practically remodeling theentire power scheme, including the rearranging and discard-ing in part of some of the older stations that had been inheritedby the parent company through the merging of the underlyingproperties; the establishing of new and more advantageous of corrugated iron laid on a light framework of steel. The en-gine room walls are lined to a height of about 20 ft. with whiteenamel brick, and for the rest of the height with a light buffbri
. The Street railway journal . SECTION OF BOILER ROOM, MARION STATION FLAME PLATE AND ASH-PIT BELOW BOILERS the company undertook the task of practically remodeling theentire power scheme, including the rearranging and discard-ing in part of some of the older stations that had been inheritedby the parent company through the merging of the underlyingproperties; the establishing of new and more advantageous of corrugated iron laid on a light framework of steel. The en-gine room walls are lined to a height of about 20 ft. with whiteenamel brick, and for the rest of the height with a light buffbrick. The boggy nature of the soil required care in the construc- —i. EXTERIOR MARION STATION distributing centers; and the building of a new 13,000-kwpower plant in the North Jersey section to care for therapidly increasing business in this territory. This station islocated at Marion, N. J., on the Hackensack River, where thecorporation owns a tract of about 14 acres on the HackensackMeadows between the river and a branch of the PennsylvaniaRailroad. The Hackensack River gives excellent tide-waterfacilities for coal delivery in addition to direct connection withtwo steam roads. tion of foundations, which were built on reinforced concretecaps laid upon 3-ft. piling. The engine room is 43 ft. x 150 ft. The boiler house is intwo complete sections with a brick wall partition, and the tworooms together are 150 ft. x 115 ft. The switch and cablebuilding is in reality a lean-to against the engine room walland contains also the engineers office. This addition is 21 150 ft. The generating equipment comprises two 5000-kw, 13,200- STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vo
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