. Railway age . rk. A recent agreement covering Mediterranean freights is the moMnatural eonsequeme of the above. Therefore we may expect normaldevelopments to produce an ultimate freight control in the NortiAtlantic approaching in method and force the passenger controlwhich already exists, and it may be expected to start in the Medi-terranean and gradually embrace the North Atlantic trade. Thetrade of the Oulf of Mexico with its great Feaeonal developmentof cotton and grain will be more difficult to control because of thegreater importance of the tramp steamer in it.(The Concrete Coal T
. Railway age . rk. A recent agreement covering Mediterranean freights is the moMnatural eonsequeme of the above. Therefore we may expect normaldevelopments to produce an ultimate freight control in the NortiAtlantic approaching in method and force the passenger controlwhich already exists, and it may be expected to start in the Medi-terranean and gradually embrace the North Atlantic trade. Thetrade of the Oulf of Mexico with its great Feaeonal developmentof cotton and grain will be more difficult to control because of thegreater importance of the tramp steamer in it.(The Concrete Coal Trestle and Ash-Handling Plant. In connection with the new power house which the & Western has now nearly completed as a part of itsHoboken terminal station, a concrete coaling trestle and ash han-dling plant have been built. The power house is south of the sta-tion tracks and a little beyond the center end of the train shedof the new terminal station. The purpose of the trestle is to form. Partly Finished Trestle before Power House Was Built. an approach by which loade<l coal cars may be taken to the levelof the second floor of the power house whence coal is dumped tothe space in front of the boilers. The trestle also serves as thesupport, on one side, of a steel structure which carries the trolleytrack of the conveyor for handling ashes from the boiler rest of the structure is entirely of reinforced concrete. As shown in the accompanying photographs, the trestle liesalongside of and parallel- to a two-story coach house and materialbuilding just beyond the power house, on the ground floor of whichthe boilers are located. The power house is three stories high. Be-tween ihe trestle and the building is the ash-car track, over which,for 130 ft., extends the trolley and Its supporting structure. Thetrestle proper is 220 ft. 3 in. long, consisting of IS bents on piersspaced 12 ft. center to center. The inner abutment is the wall ofthe power house and t
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