. Electric railway review . Ft. Dodge Des Moines & Southern Railway—Car Equipment. trestle, S00 feet long, is 165 feet high over the ravine whichit crosses. Power Plant. The generating station is situated on the bank of the Des Moines river at Fraser, which is practically the load center of the Ft. Dodge Des Moines & Southern Railway. In addition to being admirably located for obtaining feed and from an elevated track. The coal will be hauled from themines in bottom-dump cars and delivered to the boilers with-out rehandling. Along the front of the ash pits is a 12-inchspiral ash conveyor, whic
. Electric railway review . Ft. Dodge Des Moines & Southern Railway—Car Equipment. trestle, S00 feet long, is 165 feet high over the ravine whichit crosses. Power Plant. The generating station is situated on the bank of the Des Moines river at Fraser, which is practically the load center of the Ft. Dodge Des Moines & Southern Railway. In addition to being admirably located for obtaining feed and from an elevated track. The coal will be hauled from themines in bottom-dump cars and delivered to the boilers with-out rehandling. Along the front of the ash pits is a 12-inchspiral ash conveyor, which carries the ashes and cinders fromthe boiler room to a vertical bucket elevator, which loadsthem in cars. The boiler equipment consists of three Aultman-Taylor. Ft. Dodge Des Moines & Southern Railway—Interior of Engine Room. condensing water and for the economical distribution ofelectricity, the powerhouse is within 1,000 feet of a coalmine, from which the coal supply is received. The building, which is of brick and steel constructionthroughout, is 90 feet square and 25 feet high to the rooftrusses. It la divided longitudinally Into two rooms, one ofwhich is used for the boilers and auxiliaries and the other forthe turbo-generators, transformers and other electrical ap- horlzontal water-tube boilers, equipped with extended fur-naces, which allow them to burn slack coal, such as is minedIn the vicinity of the station. Each boiler has a ratedcapacity of 400 horsepower and is worked under a steampressure of 175 pounds. Space is provided for a fourthboiler. The stack is a concrete-steel structure 180 feet highand 8 feet in diameter. Boiler feed water is supplied by twoEppiag-Carpenter duplex plunger pumps (7% and 5 by 10) 674 ELECTRIC RAIL
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