. Electric railway journal . ew of Elevator ShaftBridge for Coal Tracks COAL-HANDLING SYSTEM The coal-handling plant includes a Hunt industrial railwaywith two-ton side-dump cars, which are pushed along tracksextending over the tops of the bunkers. Coal is received on asteam railroad siding about 100 ft. away from one end of oneboiler house. The push cars are loaded by gravity from atunnel underneath the railroad siding and pushed onto the floorof a steam elevator, which raises the loads to the elevatedtracks. These reach the boiler house bunkers over a platc-girder bridge spanning Eastern Ave
. Electric railway journal . ew of Elevator ShaftBridge for Coal Tracks COAL-HANDLING SYSTEM The coal-handling plant includes a Hunt industrial railwaywith two-ton side-dump cars, which are pushed along tracksextending over the tops of the bunkers. Coal is received on asteam railroad siding about 100 ft. away from one end of oneboiler house. The push cars are loaded by gravity from atunnel underneath the railroad siding and pushed onto the floorof a steam elevator, which raises the loads to the elevatedtracks. These reach the boiler house bunkers over a platc-girder bridge spanning Eastern Avenue. A track scale is pro- vided near the elevator house, so that all coal may be weighedbefore it is dumped into the bunkers. Two views of the coal-handling plant are presented. Oneshows the elevator tower and bridge across the street and theother shows the roof of one of the boiler houses, with a car ofcoal standing on the track above the bunker. A sketch of thehopper valve designed for use in loading the coal cars is pre-. Cincinnati Turbine Station—Boiler Plant sented. This valve is of simple construction, and has givenexcellent satisfaction. NEW GENERATOR BUILDING The building which encloses the turbines, auxiliaries andelectrical equipment was designed with a view to doubling the
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