Identifier: streetrailwayrev15amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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evelopment of modern acces-sories, such as coal and ash handling apparatus, economizers or feedwater heaters, smoke prcventors, and most important of all, thesuperheaters. In America, particularly in the large cities where land is ex-pensive, it is not unusual to install the boilers in two or sometimes to make acccess to them as convenient as possible. On the continentof Europe it is common practice to erect a gallery in front of theboilers, over the fire doors, which materially assists the operator.In the boiler plant of the Berlin Underground & Elevated R. R. thevalves, both for the steam and for the boiler feed water are operatedfrom the main floor by means of chains and extension rods. Inplants where overfeed stokers, such as the Roney, are used, agallery may be installed with advantage. Both the Boston Ele-vated and the New York Subway boiler plants are equipped in thismanner. In addition to the other advantages mentioned this enablesthe operator to watch the feeding of coal.
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FIG. I. INTERIOR OF BoILtK rL-\Nl- AT U.\.MBUKci. liEK.MANY. even three tiers. In Europe, where land is comparatively muchcheaper, the practice is to build only one floor of boilers, coveringthe boiler house with a glass monitor roof, thus insuring amplenatural light and ventilation. These provisions are both very de-sirable and in this country are often given too little considerationin boiler house design. This glass roof construction is clearlyshown in the accompanying illustrations. Fig. i and 2. Fig. i showsa boiler plant in Hamburg. Germany, where there are several of thissame type, and Fig. 2 one of the twin municipal plants in Vienna.These plants were designed by the Schuckert company. In the design and installation of a boiler plant care should betaken to plan the arrangement of all valves, cocks, gages, etc., so as Modern practice is towards the adoption of electricity as themotive power for coal and ash handling apparatus, coal being takenfrom the cars or boats either by mea

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