. Electric railway journal . Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company—Sand Drier House and Storage and Loading House 5-ft. 2^4-in., with oak ties. A protected third-rail sup-plies current to the car, which is of a standard typemanufactured by the Link Belt Engineering car is operated by the same man who attends to The drier now in use is of the direct-fire type, con-structed by the Coatesville Boiler Works, and is stand-ard except that it discharges at the rear instead of atthe front as the manufacturer prefers to have it. It. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company—Sand Valve in Action—View
. Electric railway journal . Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company—Sand Drier House and Storage and Loading House 5-ft. 2^4-in., with oak ties. A protected third-rail sup-plies current to the car, which is of a standard typemanufactured by the Link Belt Engineering car is operated by the same man who attends to The drier now in use is of the direct-fire type, con-structed by the Coatesville Boiler Works, and is stand-ard except that it discharges at the rear instead of atthe front as the manufacturer prefers to have it. It. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company—Sand Valve in Action—View in Sand Drier House the drier house. Owing to the location of the housewith respect to the sand pile very little time is re-quired to transfer a large quantity of sand from pileto drier. consists of a slightly inclined steel shell approximately5 ft. x 25 ft. in dimensions, having a number oflongitudinal ribs projecting inward. The shell is sup-ported and rotated on two steel tires connected to it 912 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIII, No. 17. by spring steel pieces which allow for expansion andcontraction. The tires rotate on rollers and the wholeshell is electrically driven. The drive comprises aback-geared 15-hp, 575-volt, Electro-Dynamicmotor belted to a countershaft carrying a gear mesh- driven Sturtevant blower, with a No. 35 planing-millexhauster, which has sufficient capacity for two blower supplies air to the ash pit through a blastgate and to the space above the fire also, where it mixe
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