Boilers Brunot Island 1905 - Public domain book illustration

Identifier: streetrailwayrev15amer
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



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by 24 in. The vacuum obtained in service is28 in. In the boiler room there are 20 Babcock & Wilcox boilers of 500b. p. each, arranged in batteries of two and equipped with Murphystokers. The working pressure is 150 lb. per sq. in. For each bat-tery of boilers a separate steel stack 7 ft. in diameter and 130 ft.high above the grates is provided. The feed pumps are four in number, and were built by Epping &Carpenter. The feed is heated by two 5.000-h. p. National PipeBending Co.s vertical heaters. A steel coal bunker extending the entire length of the boilerroom has a capacity of 1,800 tons. The section of this is indicatedin the cross-section of the station; it will be noted that the slope ofthe bottom is such that chutes placed at the same angle will clearthe boiler fronts and deliver to. the stokers. The bunker is sup-ported on a single row of steel columns. Ashes are dumped intohoppers under the grates and are removed by cars operated over atrack in the boiler room basement.
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GENERAL VIEW ABuVE HolLERS—BRUNOTS 1SL.\ND STATION. engine; each battery of boilers is served by a separate stack 130 ft.high. Beginning at the bridge end of the building, there will even-tually be four direct current units, then the au.viliary steam ap-paratus occupying the same space as an engine and its generator,and then five l,500-h. p. alternating current units. For each unita tunnel is provided for communication between the boiler and en-gine basement. At the west end of both the boiler and engine rooms space hasbeen partitioned off for a superintendents office, a storeroom, atoilet room and a locker room for the men. Water for house service, and also available for emergency, istaken from two lo-in. artesian wells 60 ft. deep. The two pumps forthis service are electric driven, and were furnished by the KnowlesSteam Pump Works; the motors are Westinghouse. Each pumphas cylinders gis and6->-4 by 24 in., and at 2S!4 r. p. m. has acapacity of 200 gallons per minute; the motor