. American engineer and railroad journal . es. The plant is an excellent illustration of what can hedone in reducing the cost of handling coal and ash with acomparatively small outlay, and its compactness and largecapacity, the reduction of labor and the general excellenceof the design, should induce railroads to look upon suchmachinery with greater favor. It is pretty safe to saythat the item of lat>or in coaling locomotives and diapos-iug of their ash Is much greater than is generally believed,and that the subject does not receive the attention It de-serves. At large terminals, or points
. American engineer and railroad journal . es. The plant is an excellent illustration of what can hedone in reducing the cost of handling coal and ash with acomparatively small outlay, and its compactness and largecapacity, the reduction of labor and the general excellenceof the design, should induce railroads to look upon suchmachinery with greater favor. It is pretty safe to saythat the item of lat>or in coaling locomotives and diapos-iug of their ash Is much greater than is generally believed,and that the subject does not receive the attention It de-serves. At large terminals, or points where many en-gines are coaled daily, conveyors have been introduced,but w^ think that few, if any, conveyors have been m-alalled at coaling stations of muderate size, excepting theWabash plant. But the small stations are tlie morenumerous and should receive attention. A large economyover present practice can be effected, and the plant wehave described is an excellent example of how il can bedone. 72 AMERICAN ENGINEER CARBUILDER May, 1896. common. The loogjludinal seams are butted with insideand outside welte. The circumfereDtial seams are doublerivaled. In the construction of the firebox, llie flange ofthe tuliesheet ifi made of the usual length at the top nodfor a fhort distance down the side, but aa the sheet nar-runs the flange deepens until it measures SI inches. Thisdoes not cause any waste of metal, and it carries the aeamaway from the corner of the firebox ring, which is be-lieved to be an advantage. It is expected to preventcracking of the sheets at the seams. The ring has dropcorners and is machined inside and out at the cornere. Itis set in one inch opposite the driving boxes, but ita fullwidth of 3 inchee is maintained. The water space of 4inches at front is straight, but the back and side spaces en-large toward tbe top, those at the sides becoming T| is behsved to be the best possible preventive of brokenstaybollB, The crownsheet is not arched, but is g
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