. American engineer and railroad journal . ranes are far enough away to allowan engine being coaled while another is taking addition to the enginehouse and roaling station there are track arrangement for the storage of loaded and empty coalcars. The receiving hopper is 36 ft. long, located at one side ofthe station proper and is covered with a concrete canopy, theloaded cars from the storage tracks being run down over itlargely by gravity. Hopper bottom cars are used altogetherfor the coal supply and they discharge upon a grating of 54 x4 in. bars spaced 15 in. apart in both direction
. American engineer and railroad journal . ranes are far enough away to allowan engine being coaled while another is taking addition to the enginehouse and roaling station there are track arrangement for the storage of loaded and empty coalcars. The receiving hopper is 36 ft. long, located at one side ofthe station proper and is covered with a concrete canopy, theloaded cars from the storage tracks being run down over itlargely by gravity. Hopper bottom cars are used altogetherfor the coal supply and they discharge upon a grating of 54 x4 in. bars spaced 15 in. apart in both directions, through whichthe coal passes to a revolving feeder at the bottom of thehopper. This feeder measures the charge of coal delivered tothe elevator buckets and prevents the overfilling of the bucketsand the spilling of the coal into the bucket pit. The bucketsare automatically loaded and unloaded, and are of i^ tonscapacity each. They are designed to be operated at such a speedas to give an elevating capacity of 75 tons per hour. Actually,. TRACK ARRANGEMENT AND LOCATION OF BUILDINGS AT CORNING LOCOMOTIVE TERMINAL three other buildings of importance in connection with the ter-minal; one measuring 50 ft. in width and 195 ft. long, housesa machine shop 50 by 100 ft., a storehouse 25 by 50 ft., an oilroom 20 by 50 ft, an engineers rest room and a general fore-mans office. Another building contains the power plant and athird is the blower house, whicli is connected to the engine-house by a covered passageway. The birds-eye view on page461 shows the general appearance and relative size of thesestructures. A study of the track arrangement will show that all possi-ble contingencies of operation have been provided for. Mostof the outgoing locomotives pass over the bridge to the right andsuitable tracks are provided for this switching movement, so asto prevent all possible interference in case of accident. Ar-rangements are made to pass the locomotive directly from thecoaling station to
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