. Railway master mechanic [microform] . When this bucketis lowered into the trench ashes are drawn from theash pits to the bucket. When filled the bucket is drawnup by a motor and conveyed along the overhead trackthrough a door in the wall of the boiler house anddumped directly into a car switched there for that pur-pose. In the boiler room are installed four 264 h. p. Cahallhorizontal sectional water-tube boilers, furnished by the Aultman & Taylor Machinery Co., set in two batteriesof two boilers each. Each boiler is provided with two4-in. safety valves set for 100 lbs. pressure, water col-um
. Railway master mechanic [microform] . When this bucketis lowered into the trench ashes are drawn from theash pits to the bucket. When filled the bucket is drawnup by a motor and conveyed along the overhead trackthrough a door in the wall of the boiler house anddumped directly into a car switched there for that pur-pose. In the boiler room are installed four 264 h. p. Cahallhorizontal sectional water-tube boilers, furnished by the Aultman & Taylor Machinery Co., set in two batteriesof two boilers each. Each boiler is provided with two4-in. safety valves set for 100 lbs. pressure, water col-umns, three gauge cocks, two horizontal blow-off valvesand a Kirchner high and low-water alarm. The totalcapacity of the boiler plant is about 1000 h. p. and spacehas been left in the boiler room for the installation ofanother 500 h. p. battery as soon as the increased sizeof the shops makes it necessary. The grates under theboilers are the Martin rocking and shaking design, fur-nished by the Martin Grate Co., Chicago. They have an. .<] ~ 1 n 1 1 1 1 1 i , i 1 i 11 i r{ i l i L — j LL r — _i r — -, 1 1 1 1 1. 1 1 1 1 1 r i 1 1 1 1 1 1 r : 1 1 1 L . j 1 1 1 1 r 1 r 1 1 1 1 1 i_|r = 11 1 1 r 11 ■i j 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 J1 1 1 Fig. 3—Plan of Power House—C. & E. I, R. R. August, 1904. RAILWAY MASTER MECHANIC 317
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