. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . bridge tramway moves on a cir-cular track, storing the coal in a circularpile. The inner or double pier of themachine, on which are mounted the en-gines and other mechanism, turns on a cir-cular track of smaller diameter surround-ing the pit around which the bridge ro-tates. Coal is delivered on two tracks oncither side of the rotating double pier andis duinped and run into a pit directly the tracks have a storage capacity of 2,300tons and the ash-pocket has a capacity of250 tons. The bridge
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . bridge tramway moves on a cir-cular track, storing the coal in a circularpile. The inner or double pier of themachine, on which are mounted the en-gines and other mechanism, turns on a cir-cular track of smaller diameter surround-ing the pit around which the bridge ro-tates. Coal is delivered on two tracks oncither side of the rotating double pier andis duinped and run into a pit directly the tracks have a storage capacity of 2,300tons and the ash-pocket has a capacity of250 tons. The bridge tramway storageplant has a capacity of 8,000 tons, and thiscould readily be increased if desired. Ina very ingenious coaling station recentlyconstructed for the Baltimore & OhioRailroad, at Kings Mines, Ohio, the coal-pocket is filled direct from a mine closeat hand by means of an aerial cablewayon which are moved automatic lumpingbuckets similar to those previously de-scribed. M. H. Treadwell & Co., 97 Libertystreet, New York, have favored us with anew catalogue of their freight and tank. COALING POCKETS AT KINGS MINES, ON THE BALTIMORE & OHIO, SUPPLIED DIRECT FROM MINE. nished locomotives from this plant with-out increasing the working force and final-ly a dynamo in the engine room enables theelectrical illuinination of the plant at some places where a reserve coal sup-ply of large quantity has been required alocomotive coaling station has been con-structed in connection with a coal storageand re-handling plant, consisting of eithera bridge tramway, such as is used in un-loading coal or iron ore from vessels ora cantilever type of machine based on theprinciple of the great cantilever craneswhich are employed to handle heavy mate-rial in shipbuilding plants and other in-dustrial institutions. The New York Cen- under the pier, whence it is hoisted in agrab-bucket of 2J/2 tons capacity and con-veyed out over the storage space anddumped. The same mechanism is alsoused t
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