. The street railway review . of coal, the coal_ fed down through chines to the track in the basement under the boilers permits the small carsto be loaded with ashes, and they are then run to the elevators andlifted to the level of the bottom chords of the roof trusses and runout to ash hoppers, located al>o\c the coal tracks. From these. ■ECTII Rl 1 BOILER Mil 11 BMAOI EDGE HOOH BOILEB • dumped d tuled in >li- middle,• I for 10 lioilcri of goo 1 on and three more are in course of erection. These are all water lube boilei iwith sq. ft. of heating surface and 500
. The street railway review . of coal, the coal_ fed down through chines to the track in the basement under the boilers permits the small carsto be loaded with ashes, and they are then run to the elevators andlifted to the level of the bottom chords of the roof trusses and runout to ash hoppers, located al>o\c the coal tracks. From these. ■ECTII Rl 1 BOILER Mil 11 BMAOI EDGE HOOH BOILEB • dumped d tuled in >li- middle,• I for 10 lioilcri of goo 1 on and three more are in course of erection. These are all water lube boilei iwith sq. ft. of heating surface and 500 sq. ft. of superheatingsurface each, and were built by the Edge Moor lion Co., Edge Moor, Del. A novel feature of these boilers i^ the front, whichon each consists of a single Kinnear rolling Steel door; ibis arrange mem of front is particularly desirable m this station where the chutes from the coal bunkers abovethe boilers would seriouslyinterfere with the openingot door- of the ordinarytype. Each boiler has 234 lubes4 in. by 17 ft. 4 in., theheaders being 18 ft. toj j centers as meas-ured along the center linesof the drums of which thereare three, each of 30 in. di-ameter. Each boiler has a McKcll zie traveling grate with ef-fective area 11 ft. X in. longby 1 1 Ft. wide. Ihe archOver the frcnil end of thefurnace is of speci
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