. Electric railway journal . Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend—Section Through Engine and Boiler Rooms hopper about 1 ft. square and a few inches deep is formed uum of about 1 lb. below atmosphere. Water from thetank overhead is sprayed into the top of the hopper toquench the hot ash as it comes Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend—Plan of Michigan City Power Station above this opening. At the eastend of the boiler room the8-in. collecting pipe is carried up several feet above thefloor and left open. At the west end the 8-in. pipe runsunder the boiler-room floor and up to the top of the ash Wh
. Electric railway journal . Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend—Section Through Engine and Boiler Rooms hopper about 1 ft. square and a few inches deep is formed uum of about 1 lb. below atmosphere. Water from thetank overhead is sprayed into the top of the hopper toquench the hot ash as it comes Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend—Plan of Michigan City Power Station above this opening. At the eastend of the boiler room the8-in. collecting pipe is carried up several feet above thefloor and left open. At the west end the 8-in. pipe runsunder the boiler-room floor and up to the top of the ash When ash is being elevated all the openings of the in the ash pits are closed except the opening in thepit being emptied. There a man fakes the ashes from underthe grate into the small hopper in the floor and the blast 726 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXIII. No. 16. of air coming through the open end of the pipe carriesthem along and deposits them in the hopper. With thefull boiler-room capacity installed and in operation it isestimated that two men will be able to remove easily theash as produced. The maintenance of this equipment has not yet been de-termined, but it appears that there is considerable wear
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