. The Street railway journal . g through thegrates, and these hoppers, as well as the ash hoppers underthe boilers, have outlets in the basement. The provisionsfor emptying the fine coal hoppers and the ash hoppers israther unique. In the basement underneath the front of the company in East Peoria. The cars are dumped intothe coal pit previously referred to as being under the second opening similar to that through which the tracknow runs is provided for the future installation of a switchtrack. Coal is carried from, the coal pits by means of anoverhead motor-operated crane provided wi
. The Street railway journal . g through thegrates, and these hoppers, as well as the ash hoppers underthe boilers, have outlets in the basement. The provisionsfor emptying the fine coal hoppers and the ash hoppers israther unique. In the basement underneath the front of the company in East Peoria. The cars are dumped intothe coal pit previously referred to as being under the second opening similar to that through which the tracknow runs is provided for the future installation of a switchtrack. Coal is carried from, the coal pits by means of anoverhead motor-operated crane provided with a clam shellbucket of 108 cu. ft. capacity. The crane runway extendsthe full length of the boiler room over the bunkers andalso through the north addition containing the several addition to conveying coal the crane is employed tocarry the ashes from the ash pit to cars placed over the coalpit. BOILER FEED Two vertical simple Dean house pumps, with cylindersmeasuring 10 ins. x 10 ins. x 24 ins., located in the south-. Strccl By. Jmn iial FRONT ELEVATION OF BOILERS IN THE PEORIA STATION, SHOWING ALSO THE FUEL-HANDLING FACILITIES each row of boilers is a track of 60-lb. T-rails laid to agage of 2 ft. 6^4 ins. These tracks extend under the northwall of the boiler room and over an ash pit and a fine coalpit in the extension previously referred to. Each is pro-vided with a motor-driven hopper bottom car of steel con-struction, which, after being placed under the hopper dis-charge doors and filled, is run over one of the pits in theextension and emptied. The car is driven by a 5-hp, 125-volt motor geared to one of the axles. Current is sup-plied from protected trolleys supported on the hopper wallsnear the floor. COAL-HANDLING APPARATUSCoal is hauled to the station over the lines of the IllinoisTraction System in hopper-bottom cars. The coal willprobably be obtained from mines now being developed by west corner of the turbine room, are piped to a Cochraneopen feed-water hea
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