. Electric railway journal . o-generator units. The generators are mounted on a floor carriedabove the boiler plant. The coal-handling plant of this stationas first built included a gantry crane traveling over a coal-storage pit. The crane was equipped with a one-ton clam-shellbucket with the necessary hoisting and coal-crushing crane bridge, which was 60 ft. wide, was arranged forelectrical propulsion over tracks 225 ft. long carried on thesides of the concrete coal-storage pit. Coal was received in carsand unloaded into the pit or directly into the power-stationbunkers. The cra
. Electric railway journal . o-generator units. The generators are mounted on a floor carriedabove the boiler plant. The coal-handling plant of this stationas first built included a gantry crane traveling over a coal-storage pit. The crane was equipped with a one-ton clam-shellbucket with the necessary hoisting and coal-crushing crane bridge, which was 60 ft. wide, was arranged forelectrical propulsion over tracks 225 ft. long carried on thesides of the concrete coal-storage pit. Coal was received in carsand unloaded into the pit or directly into the power-stationbunkers. The crane bucket elevated the coal and dumped itinto a bunker of about 400 tons capacity. The crane served astorage yard of approximately 6000-ton capacity and is statedto have been satisfactory while in operation, except that themaintenance cost was high. On Aug. 28, 1909, the crane was blown over during a heavywindstorm. The crane operator had failed to lock the craneto the rails and the wind pressure against the framework of the. Electric Ry. Journal EkV. Bottom / I I Floor Coal-Handling Arrangement of the Fort Wayne &Wabash Valley Railways Power Plant bridge moved it along the runway at sufficient speed to breakthe bumping blocks when the end of the travel was crane then upset, falling into a water tower nearby. Theforce with which the crane struck the water tower served todestroy both crane and tank. After this accident the engineersof the Ft. Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Company wereconfronted with the problem of replacing their coal-handlingequipment. Several systems were considered and practicallyall except the new plant as here illustrated were not acceptedon account of the high maintenance cost. The new installationwas chosen, not for its low first cost, but because it promised torequire little maintenance. The new system includes a coal tunnel under the storage pit,an elevator shaft and distributing tracks for handling coal inindustrial rai
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