. Electric railway journal . to tapping the railway circuit. Thelocation of the shops at the extreme end of a feeder line wouldotherwise have required the erection of another feeder toinsure good regulation; it was more desirable to operate themachine tools by three-phase instead of direct-current motors. The shop heating plant is located in the basement in front ofthe storeroom. This installation is entirely surrounded byfire walls. The steam generating equipment consists of two125-hp Ames return tubular boilers which supply steam on the A PRI] I , I () I I . I ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL gravit
. Electric railway journal . to tapping the railway circuit. Thelocation of the shops at the extreme end of a feeder line wouldotherwise have required the erection of another feeder toinsure good regulation; it was more desirable to operate themachine tools by three-phase instead of direct-current motors. The shop heating plant is located in the basement in front ofthe storeroom. This installation is entirely surrounded byfire walls. The steam generating equipment consists of two125-hp Ames return tubular boilers which supply steam on the A PRI] I , I () I I . I ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL gravity return system at to lb. to 12 lb. pressure. The coal isdelivered to the boiler room by gravity through a boiler-platechute to a concrete hopper under the floor of the section infront of the storeroom. The ashes from this plant are conveyed to an overheadbunker which is high enough to permit the contents to bedumped by gravity into ash cars brought in on the transfertable. The apparatus for raising the boiler room ash car,. 1 L J L Electric 111/. Journal Fig. 25—Syracuse Shops—Cross-Section Taken Throughthe Paint and Oil House dumping it automatically and returning it to the floor is veryingenious and effective. As shown in the accompanying draw-ing, Fig. 23, the ash runway is a ladder which rises almostperpendicularly to a height of 41 ft. 6 in. and then runs hori-
Size: 1864px × 1340px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidelectricrailway371911newy
