. The street railway review . FIELD COIL WINDER. (^ft/ueXJ\aiiM/Ja^\^^ 75. SKID FOR CARS WITH BROKEN AXLES, MINNEAPOLIS AND MILWAUKEE. Steam. Down in the boiler room, close by the boilers, isa big bank of live steam coils. A Sturtevant fan blower,driven by a direct connected steam engine, forces airthrough these coils, and through galvanized sheet ironpipes, leading to all parts of the shops, discharging atproper intervals. The result is the best warmed set ofshops and car barns we have ever visited, and a verymarked economv over the old direct radiation systemwith steam coils running to all p
. The street railway review . FIELD COIL WINDER. (^ft/ueXJ\aiiM/Ja^\^^ 75. SKID FOR CARS WITH BROKEN AXLES, MINNEAPOLIS AND MILWAUKEE. Steam. Down in the boiler room, close by the boilers, isa big bank of live steam coils. A Sturtevant fan blower,driven by a direct connected steam engine, forces airthrough these coils, and through galvanized sheet ironpipes, leading to all parts of the shops, discharging atproper intervals. The result is the best warmed set ofshops and car barns we have ever visited, and a verymarked economv over the old direct radiation systemwith steam coils running to all parts of the old shops, which were destroyed by tire, wereheated with the direct radiation system, and took abouttwice as much fuel in the course of a winter as the pres-ent system, to say nothing of the fact that the old build-ing was smaller and was far from being heated as wellas the present one. The company makes a great deal of its own specialtrack work, and has exxellent facilities for doing thiskind of work. A great variet_y of equipment is in use. Ne
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