Identifier: streetrailwayrev01amer (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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nt;ines there is a copjier bend of livefeel radius. Ihis is to take care of the expansionbetween the enifines. The exhaust, 16 inches whereit lea\es the engines at each end of cslinders and ^4inches from where these come together, is made of No. 8 one of each is used for lu)t and cold water and the thirdcan be used for either. The feed pipes are so connectedthat an) part of the boiler room equipment can be cutout for rej^airs or cleaning without interfering with theoperation of the plant. All vahes used on this work,gate, globe, chronometer, etc., are the genuine JenkinsBros, valves. The sizes running from J^ inch to 24inches. The floor of the engine room is of granitoid, no woodbeing in use \\hale\er, and the exhaust pipes, where theyare under the floor are either arched over or coveredwith iron plates so that any part of it can be readily gotat without disturbing the floor. A \-er\- unique and economical feature of these plantsis the means used for sa\ing and piuif\ing the water for
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■^IXTY TON FI.Y WIIEKL AM) DKI\ING MACHINERY, BROADWAY CAllLE I.INE, ST. Lulls steel ri\-ited pijie. This runs under the tloor from theengines to where it enters the boiler room. After reach-ing the boiler room it rises straight up to the roof, beingconnected on the way to the vacuum heater and justabove this having a 24-inch back pressure valve. Thisvalve- is the largest of its kind ever made by JenkinsBros. It is used here in connection with the exhauststeam heating apparatus. On the top of this pipe is acondensing exhaust head which returns the water fromthe exhaust steam direct to the heater and it is then againused for steam. The pumps are Hooker No. 7, three ofwhich are in each boiler room, and are connected so that the boilers. A large cistern about 4 ft. deep and capableof holding 50,000 gallons of water is constructed betweenthe tension pits. The water runs directly into this cisternfrom the street mains until it is about half full when thewater is shut off by a float valve

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