. The street railway review . he Imnd and the rail. A noticeable fea-ture of this bond is its very short length, being but four inches hoppers arc arranged on tiie west side o( the building into whichcoal is unloaded from the cars on a spur track. Just of the building underneath these hoppers is a track on whicha small coal car travels and which leads to a hydraulic elevatorbuilt by Kaestner Bros., of Chicago. The coal car is filled with 930 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. IVuL. XIV, No. 12 cojil frotii the liopptTs ovcrhon*! aiul is run (into the hytlraniic eifvalor, which raises the car to a
. The street railway review . he Imnd and the rail. A noticeable fea-ture of this bond is its very short length, being but four inches hoppers arc arranged on tiie west side o( the building into whichcoal is unloaded from the cars on a spur track. Just of the building underneath these hoppers is a track on whicha small coal car travels and which leads to a hydraulic elevatorbuilt by Kaestner Bros., of Chicago. The coal car is filled with 930 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. IVuL. XIV, No. 12 cojil frotii the liopptTs ovcrhon*! aiul is run (into the hytlraniic eifvalor, which raises the car to a coal balcony ahotit 10 ft. high whichextends along in front of the hollers. On reaching the balcony, thecar passes onto a Fairbanks scale, by means of which the coal is The ashes are shovelled into cars which are elevated on thehydraulic lift to the coal balcony and the cars are pushed out ontoan ash trestle, the details of which are shown in one of the illus-trations. From the hand car the ashes are dumped into one of vfi^^. CROSS nf niuKk lllll .--E. U i Jl ill. weighed, after which it runs along a track on the balcony amidischarges its load of coal into a row of hoppers which lead lothe underfeed stokers. The forced draft is provided by means of twoblowers, one 40 in. and one 6 ft, in diameter, operated respectivelyby 17-h. p and j--h. p. eiigiius. built by the Troy Engine Machine the railway companys dump cars and distributed along the line forballast. The Green fuel economizer system, which was installed inthe old plant, has been continued in the new plant. The water supply has heretofore been taken from the city serviceand there is a reservoir 150 ft. in area by 9 ft. deep wherethe necessary supply of water for the station is stored, and. in ad-dition to this, the company has just completed boring a deep wellwhich it is expected will have sufficient capacity to operate thestation without making use of the city service. There is one Snowduplex steam b
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