. The Street railway journal . placed in the switchboard gallery, andthe other at a convenient place in the engine room. The mark-ings of the dials for this station, as shown accompanyingcuts, are arranged for seven engines, three exciters and two To be certain of having ready at all times large quantities ofwell-dried sand, required for its extensive street and interurbanrailway system, the Public Service Corporation of New Jerseyhas recently had installed an extensive sand-drying plant bythe American Process Company, of New York. This plant is at Passaic Wharf, near Newark, and only a
. The Street railway journal . placed in the switchboard gallery, andthe other at a convenient place in the engine room. The mark-ings of the dials for this station, as shown accompanyingcuts, are arranged for seven engines, three exciters and two To be certain of having ready at all times large quantities ofwell-dried sand, required for its extensive street and interurbanrailway system, the Public Service Corporation of New Jerseyhas recently had installed an extensive sand-drying plant bythe American Process Company, of New York. This plant is at Passaic Wharf, near Newark, and only ashort distance from the large shops and car houses on thePlank Road line. All sand will be delivered to this location byboat and hoisted directly to the hopper of the sand dryer. Theconstruction of the drying apparatus is shown in detail in theaccompanying drawing. It should be noted that a strikingfeature of the machine is its large capacity, namely, 10 tonsper hour. From the hopper which receives the sand, it is taken by an. SIDE ELEVATION OF THE NEW SAND-DRYING PLANT OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY, AT PASSAIC WHARF, NEWARK motor generators. The following account explains the opera-tion of this system: When the switchboard attendant observes that the increas-ing load on the line requires the throwing in of engine No. 4,for instance, he turns the outer handle on his left-hand standuntil its pointer reaches the position Start. The turning ofthe handle causes the ringing of an alarm gong and sets the inclined conveyor and dropped through a chute to an intakehopper. From there it is delivered into the drying wet sand and the furnace gases enter the shell at thehigher end. The wet material falls to the bottom of the dryer,is caught by a shelf, elevated to almost the highest point of therotation, and is then showered through the furnace gases. Thiscycle of operations is repeated until the sand, in a dried condi- 2 [8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVII
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