. Electric railway journal . February 8, 1919 Electric Railway Journal 267. 750-HP. BOILERS EQUIPPED WITH CHAIN GRATES AND DRAFT GAGES IN THESE DAYS of increased costof production and operation it willbe of interest to many readers ofthe Electric Railway Journal tolearn how the Denver Tramway hassucceeded in improving its powerplant and, in spite of the increasedcost of labor and coal, how it has bygreatly reducing the coal consumptionper kilowatt-hour kept the burdenfrom rising to an intolerable extent,F. W. Hild was appointed general manager of thiscompany he called in E. A. West, then effic
. Electric railway journal . February 8, 1919 Electric Railway Journal 267. 750-HP. BOILERS EQUIPPED WITH CHAIN GRATES AND DRAFT GAGES IN THESE DAYS of increased costof production and operation it willbe of interest to many readers ofthe Electric Railway Journal tolearn how the Denver Tramway hassucceeded in improving its powerplant and, in spite of the increasedcost of labor and coal, how it has bygreatly reducing the coal consumptionper kilowatt-hour kept the burdenfrom rising to an intolerable extent,F. W. Hild was appointed general manager of thiscompany he called in E. A. West, then efficiencyengineer of the Portland Railway, Light & PowerCompany and now chief engineer of the DenverTramway, to make an investigation and report on thepower situation which confronted the company. Thisreport showed that it would be best to install a turbineof capacity sufficient to carry the maximum load of thesystem, and in this way to obtain a better average waterrate than was possible with a number of small units. In order to explain more in detail the improvementswhi
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