. The Street railway journal . July, 1898.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 363 It contains all the necessary instruments for operating thedifferent feeder lines. In the boiler room are one horizontal National watertube boiler of 400 and two horizontal return tubularboilers of 125 each. One Berryman vertical feedwater heater is used, and one injector. One Worthingtonpump and one Snow pump complete the equipment of thestation. The company is at present using from to 6tons per day of anthracite buckwheat coal, which costs$ per ton, delivered at the station. The average dailycar mileage of
. The Street railway journal . July, 1898.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 363 It contains all the necessary instruments for operating thedifferent feeder lines. In the boiler room are one horizontal National watertube boiler of 400 and two horizontal return tubularboilers of 125 each. One Berryman vertical feedwater heater is used, and one injector. One Worthingtonpump and one Snow pump complete the equipment of thestation. The company is at present using from to 6tons per day of anthracite buckwheat coal, which costs$ per ton, delivered at the station. The average dailycar mileage of the system is 1550 miles. The company has two car houses, one at the powerhouse and one in Norristown. At this latter are situatedthe repair shops, the dimensions of which are 20 ft. x15 ft. The shops are well equipped with all necessarytools, including lathes and drills, for making quick repairson all parts of cars. The cars at present in operation are 18 ft. long, andwere built by the Jackson & Sharp Company and theLewis
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