. Electric railway journal . e the details of the tower andof other features of the equipment. The cable car has a capacity of 3200 lb., and runsfrom the tower to the bunkers in the boiler house over atruss bridge about 150 ft. long. One of the illustra-tions is a view of the top of the bridge, showing thecar just returning from the bunkers. The car runs ona track of about 20-in. gage and is equipped with anautomatic dumping trip. The cable mechanism is drivenby a motor mounted in the tower, and the carmakes the round trip to and from the bunkers withoutattendance except that a tower o
. Electric railway journal . e the details of the tower andof other features of the equipment. The cable car has a capacity of 3200 lb., and runsfrom the tower to the bunkers in the boiler house over atruss bridge about 150 ft. long. One of the illustra-tions is a view of the top of the bridge, showing thecar just returning from the bunkers. The car runs ona track of about 20-in. gage and is equipped with anautomatic dumping trip. The cable mechanism is drivenby a motor mounted in the tower, and the carmakes the round trip to and from the bunkers withoutattendance except that a tower operator looks after thescale records, fills the car and releases it, starts andstops the cable and has general charge of the coal han-dling. An adjustable trip on the track at the bunkercontrols the automatic discharge of fuel from the bunker capacity is 300 tons. Normally this equipment is operated about six hoursper day. In winter eight men are employed in coal andashes handling, exclusive of fireroom service. Four. COAL AND ASHES HANDLING—ASHES REMOVING EQUIPMENT,N. & W. RY. PLANT 680 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIX, No. 15 shovelers and ashes handlers are required, and one mandevotes his entire attention to the operation of thecrusher and conveyor during the hours of foreman of coal handling attends to oiling gears,shafts, cams, etc., daily and oils the bucket chain weekly. Ashes are effectively handled in this station by dis-charging them from the boiler ashpits into a hopper carin the basement, which is run to an elevator and thenceby a short overhead bridge to an exterior ash or trucks receive the ashes from the hopper bygravity. Belt Conveyors Used at Tonawanda In the new 210,000-kw. plant of the Buffalo GeneralElectric Company at Tonawanda, N. Y., coal is at pres-ent delivered by rail with a temporary storage main-tained by means of locomotive cranes working upontrestles. The coal-handling system within the stationwas installed
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