. The Street railway journal . t End yards are such thatthirty carloads, or 450 tons of coal, can be hauled there in aday. The coal company pays the Denver & Northwestern astipend per ton for all coal hauled over its line from the mine-to the city. This charge is so reasonable and the other items ofexpense so low that the company is already able to retail coalin competition with the other local dealers at $ a ton, whichis 75 cents a ton cheaper than the prevailing rates for the same August I, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 165 grade of coal. For receiving coal at the Tramway Companysnew po
. The Street railway journal . t End yards are such thatthirty carloads, or 450 tons of coal, can be hauled there in aday. The coal company pays the Denver & Northwestern astipend per ton for all coal hauled over its line from the mine-to the city. This charge is so reasonable and the other items ofexpense so low that the company is already able to retail coalin competition with the other local dealers at $ a ton, whichis 75 cents a ton cheaper than the prevailing rates for the same August I, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 165 grade of coal. For receiving coal at the Tramway Companysnew power house on the Platte River, in Denver, special pro-visions are being made. A track will be run into an annex ofthe boiler room, where the coal will be dumped into a large re- The track of the Denver & Northwestern, as well as that r of the Denver local system, is all laid on a 3-ft. 6-in. gage, sothat standard coal cars used on steam roads cannot at presentbe handled. The road is laid, however, with ties long enough. FIG. 3.—TRAIN OF COAL DUMP CARS AND WORKINGS FOR NEW SHAFT ceiving bin. This bin will discharge into a cross conveyor that for an extra rail, and it is the companys intention to lay thiswill carry the coal to the main conveyor, which will discharge rail soon, so that it can compete for the steam road trade. Theinto the hopper bins above the boilers. By this arrangement electric motor cars will be able to haul these standard-gagethe coal will not be handled manually after it is mined. As the coal cars as well as the narrow-gage dump cars. The detailscoal receiving apparatus will not be ready for several weeks, of the management of the Leyden Coal Company are under the supervision of S. M. Perry, general manager,and J. G. Perry, superintendent. TRACK CONSTRUCTIONThe track construction of the Denver &Northwestern is built for carrying 100-tonstandard gage locomotives, although at presentonly the narrow-gage track is laid. It seemsunfortunate that an interurban ro
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