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1873 Fall River Water Works URBEX Adventure (Massachusetts)

"Massive Twin Engines inside the Pump-Station House"

"The first engine was built in 1873 by the Boston Machine Company, and put in Operation January 5th, 2874, the first water being supplied to the city on January 8th. The engine is a double horizontal condensing engine, similar to the engines at Boston Highlands, which were built by the same company, and consists of two pumps 16 inches in diameter, and two stem cylinders 28 inches in diameter, both cylinders and pumps having a stroke of 42 inches and working from one crank-shaft with one fly-wheel, 15 feet in diameter, and weighing 15 tons. The engine possesses advantage--which on several occasions, while the community was dependent on its unassisted efforts, has proved very useful and essential--the fact that its two parts are symmetrical, and although designed to work together, capable of being run separately, and one half stopped if it is necessary to make any repairs or to adjust or replace the valves.

This engine pumps directly into a 24-inch force-main, extending from the engine-house to the center of the city at the corner of Main and Bedford streets, a distance of a mile and three quarters, and this force-main supplies low-service--that is, all those portions of the city which can be satisfactorily supplied with an adequate pressure from a reservoir, which is intended to be constructed at some future time on the hill near the pumping station, where the elevation of the highest point is 256 feet above tide-water."

"Massive Twin Engines inside the Pump-Station House"

"The first engine was built in 1873 by the Boston Machine Company, and put in Operation January 5th, 2874, the first water being supplied to the city on January 8th. The engine is a double horizontal condensing engine, similar to the engines at Boston Highlands, which were built by the same company, and consists of two pumps 16 inches in diameter, and two stem cylinders 28 inches in diameter, both cylinders and pumps having a stroke of 42 inches and working from one crank-shaft with one fly-wheel, 15 feet in diameter, and weighing 15 tons. The engine possesses advantage--which on several occasions, while the community was dependent on its unassisted efforts, has proved very useful and essential--the fact that its two parts are symmetrical, and although designed to work together, capable of being run separately, and one half stopped if it is necessary to make any repairs or to adjust or replace the valves.

This engine pumps directly into a 24-inch force-main, extending from the engine-house to the center of the city at the corner of Main and Bedford streets, a distance of a mile and three quarters, and this force-main supplies low-service--that is, all those portions of the city which can be satisfactorily supplied with an adequate pressure from a reservoir, which is intended to be constructed at some future time on the hill near the pumping station, where the elevation of the highest point is 256 feet above tide-water."