The Street railway journal (1902) (14574145599)

Identifier: streetrailwayjo201902newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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BUILDING FOUNDATIONS FOR POWER STATION mary horizontal feed water heater of 500-hp capacity, arrangedeccentrically to drip at the lower end, is provided, and also anauxiliary vertical heater of the same make and capacity. Botliheaters are made by the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Com-pany, of Harrisburg, Pa. As indicated by the accompanying viewof the feed water piping, a system of by-passing permits the useof either heater separately or both in combination, so that possibleinjury to any part of the feeding system would not affect the con-tinuous operation of the plant; and also in case of a failure of thetown water supply connection can immediately be had with the riv-er, which at that point in the Hudson contains on the average aboutseventy-five grains of salt per gallon. Provision has been made atone end of the boiler room for the installation of a compression re-frigerating system for the manufacture of ice and for cold storagebusiness. The outlines of this apparatus are shown