. The street railway review . DDDDDDDDDCDDDnDQDDDC DDnDDDnD lL^I^^^^^^^ daxiJiAiijLfesiiJ alajOjlM:) FIG. 4.—COAL HANDLING MACHINERY, TORONTO RAILWAY. the lines of the North Chicago Street Railroad Companyand the Chicago Electric Transit Company, is the only sta-tion belonging to the Yerkes system that burns coal insteadof oil. In the boiler room there are 10 water tube boilersof 300 h. p. capacity each, and in front and above is a binholding 400 tons of coal, Fig. i. The coal storage houseis apart from the power house and is 24 ft. wide by 200 The station is located on the Chicago ri
. The street railway review . DDDDDDDDDCDDDnDQDDDC DDnDDDnD lL^I^^^^^^^ daxiJiAiijLfesiiJ alajOjlM:) FIG. 4.—COAL HANDLING MACHINERY, TORONTO RAILWAY. the lines of the North Chicago Street Railroad Companyand the Chicago Electric Transit Company, is the only sta-tion belonging to the Yerkes system that burns coal insteadof oil. In the boiler room there are 10 water tube boilersof 300 h. p. capacity each, and in front and above is a binholding 400 tons of coal, Fig. i. The coal storage houseis apart from the power house and is 24 ft. wide by 200 The station is located on the Chicago river, which. FIG. 5.—BOILER ROOM, TORONTO. furnishes an abundant supply of condensing water, but itsdepth is too uncertain for shipping fuel. The coal is deliv-ered in wagons, weighed on a platform scale between thestation and coal house and the wagon is drawn on a pivotedplatform, just to the left of the end of the coal house, asshown in Fig. 2. By the use of a hand wheel and gearingthe coal is dumped from the wagon into a hopper, whichfeeds the run of mine coal to a crusher. This consists oftwo cast iron toothed cylinders revolving in opposite direc-tions on parallel shafts. The coal, which is there reducedto a fairly uniform size, is either conveyed back into the coalhouse or is carried into the bin in the boiler room for coal is fed from the bin to the stokers through chutes by opening slide doors operated by iron ro<la extendingdown to within a few feet of the floor. The coal house has acapacity of 4,000 tons. A conveyor collects the ashes from beneath the boilersand deposits the
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