. Electric railway journal . I. T. S. Coal-Handling Plant—Loading Spouts Underneath Bridge Louis coal trade demanded lump coal. At the same timebetter economy would be possible at the Venice generatingstation if screenings were supplied in sufficient quantityto make the crushing of lump coal unnecessary. The onlything lacking, therefore, was the installation of a coal-handling plant in St. Louis to remove screenings from therun-of-mine coal or lump coal transmitted a long distance. Accordingly a new coal-handling plant has been equippedto do this work, and as a result all the coal for the reta
. Electric railway journal . I. T. S. Coal-Handling Plant—Loading Spouts Underneath Bridge Louis coal trade demanded lump coal. At the same timebetter economy would be possible at the Venice generatingstation if screenings were supplied in sufficient quantityto make the crushing of lump coal unnecessary. The onlything lacking, therefore, was the installation of a coal-handling plant in St. Louis to remove screenings from therun-of-mine coal or lump coal transmitted a long distance. Accordingly a new coal-handling plant has been equippedto do this work, and as a result all the coal for the retailtrade in St. Louis finds a ready market because of its free-dom from screenings. The quantity of fine coal obtainedby this plan is almost sufficient to equal the demand of theVenice generating station for that kind of fuel, but someis. purchased from other mines in the vicinity of St. I. T. S. Coal-Handling Plant—Reloading Tipple as Seenfrom Bridge Deck The new plant has been constructed under the St. Louisapproach to the McKinley Bridge over the location permits drop-bottom cars to discharge thecoal into bunkers from a third track at the bridge accompanying illustration show the plant, the type ofcar used in coal delivery service and also the office building conforms to the standard architecture used bythe Illinois Traction system. The plant embraces six coal bunkers situated under thethird track and having a total storage capacity of 600 is dumped from special 80, drop-bot-tom cars through the bridge approach deck to the bunkersbelow. These bunkers in turn discharge over screens whichpermit the fine coal to fall through to spouts feeding acontinuous bucket conveyor. The lump coal flows by grav-ity to other spouts provided with a hopper , when opened by a hand lever, dumps the coa
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