. The Street railway journal . location of the plant on a sitebounded on the one side by a streetand on the other by a railroad yardhas necessitated the expansion of theplant in a longitudinal direction, sothat the present station is one of thelongest in the South without wall orother obstruction from end to end ofthe engine room. The power station building is 394ft. long by 164 ft. wide. The build-ing is divided into the conventionalboiler and engine rooms, separated bya brick fire wall 24 in. thick. All butfour of the boilers now installed areequipped with mechanical i
. The Street railway journal . location of the plant on a sitebounded on the one side by a streetand on the other by a railroad yardhas necessitated the expansion of theplant in a longitudinal direction, sothat the present station is one of thelongest in the South without wall orother obstruction from end to end ofthe engine room. The power station building is 394ft. long by 164 ft. wide. The build-ing is divided into the conventionalboiler and engine rooms, separated bya brick fire wall 24 in. thick. All butfour of the boilers now installed areequipped with mechanical is supplied to the station by hop-per bottom cars which are deliveredby the steam railroad company to asiding which parallels the west wall ofthe building. Below the track is aseries of hoppers which deliver thefuel to a Robins belt conveyor 36 in. wide runningparallel to the track in a horizontal plane about 9 the ground. This belt is driven by a lo-hp, 220-volt,d. c. motor. The horizontal belt conveyor discharges the. EXTERIOR POWELL AVENUE STATION OF THE BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY, LIGHT & POWER COMPANY street railway service and furnishes current for generalcentral station service, besides heating practically the entirebusiness district with exhaust steam. The latter serviceextends for a maximum distance of about one mile fromthe station. coal into a Jeffrey crusher, driven by a 15-hp motor, andafter the coal leaves the crusher it is delivered through aspout into a skip bucket which is hoisted by a Hunt engineup an incline to a point about 60 ft. above the boiler roomfloor. The capacity of the skip bucket is two tons, and the
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