. The Street railway journal . FIG. 2.—COALING STATION OF SECOND AND THIRD AVENUE ELEVATED RAILWAYS, NEW YORK. 84 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. X. No. FIG. 4.—SECTION OFAND THIRD BOILERAVENUE EMPLOYEDELEVATED AT TERMINAL STATION—SECONDRAILWAYS, NEW YORK. The flues aretapering to facili- tate removal when neces-sary, and the grate bars areplaced midway of the is provided an ashchamber underneath fromwhich the ashes and cindersare readily removed. Thereare 224 two and a half inchreturn tubes in each boiler,which lead into individualflues leading to the threesmo
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 2.—COALING STATION OF SECOND AND THIRD AVENUE ELEVATED RAILWAYS, NEW YORK. 84 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. X. No. FIG. 4.—SECTION OFAND THIRD BOILERAVENUE EMPLOYEDELEVATED AT TERMINAL STATION—SECONDRAILWAYS, NEW YORK. The flues aretapering to facili- tate removal when neces-sary, and the grate bars areplaced midway of the is provided an ashchamber underneath fromwhich the ashes and cindersare readily removed. Thereare 224 two and a half inchreturn tubes in each boiler,which lead into individualflues leading to the threesmokestacks, which areshown in the rear of thehoist in Fig. 2. The fuel,which consists of brokencoal, is brought in by meansof a portable bunker hav-ing a slanting side, fromwhich it is readily shovel-ed into the furnaces, leavingthe floor clean at all boiler is providedwith a duplex and inde-pendent system of waterand steam pipes and safetyappliances. There are twoBlake feed pumps of thevertical marine type, andsix injectors. The feed-water is drawn from a hotwell and led through a re-heating apparatus. Eachboiler can be used indepen-dent
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