Identifier: streetrailwayrev14amer (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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ced draft is provided by means of twoblowers, one 40 in. and one 6 ft, in diameter, operated respectivelyby 17-h. p and j--h. p. eiigiius. built by the Troy Engine Machine the railway companys dump cars and distributed along the line forballast. The Green fuel economizer system, which was installed inthe old plant, has been continued in the new plant. The water supply has heretofore been taken from the city serviceand there is a reservoir 80.x 150 ft. in area by 9 ft. deep wherethe necessary supply of water for the station is stored, and. in ad-dition to this, the company has just completed boring a deep wellwhich it is expected will have sufficient capacity to operate thestation without making use of the city service. There is one Snowduplex steam boiler feed pump 12 x 7 x 12 in. in size which takesits suction from a Cochrane heater usually but which also can takewater from the reservoir or from the city water supply. Theboilers are fed cither through the main feed line or through an
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lL.\N .\ND EI.EV.\TION OF COOLINi; TOWERS. PLAN AND ELEVATION OF ASH, TRACK AND HIGH TENSION WIRINGOUTSIDE OF BUILDING. Co. The induced draft apparatus was furnished by the SturtevantCo. and includes an 8-ft. blower. The boilers are also connected to a 125-ft. steel stack, 5 ft. inside diameter, built by the Aurora Boiler Works. auxiliary feed line lo which a water meter is connected. .-K backfeed to the boilers has been provided for cases of emergency andan extra feed pump is located in the basement of the station. Theboiler room also contains a Knovvles fire pump i8x lOx 12 in. in size Dec 20, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 931 which can also be used for boiler fecdiiiR if necessary. T\v.Cochrane heater is of 2.500-h, p. capacity and all auxiliaries exhaustinto this heater. The new engine room equipment consists of a cross compoundcondensing engine with cylinder dinKnsions .u ■d 68 by 54 in.,operating at 94 r. p. m., and devoloping 2.250 h. p. at best economy.The main shaft is of h

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