. The Street railway journal . Worthington boiler feed pumps. The coal handling machinery was furnishedand erected by the C. W. Hunt Company. Fromthe car in the unloading shed the coal is shoveledby hand into the receiving hoppers, then the con-veyor carries it under the boiler room floor to theend elevator, thence to the coal hoppers overheadwhere a horizontal conveyor distributes it through-out their length. From the hoppers it is fed bygravity into the stoker hoppers. The vertical con-veyor also carries the ashes from the ash pits anddelivers them into the two center hoppers located infront
. The Street railway journal . Worthington boiler feed pumps. The coal handling machinery was furnishedand erected by the C. W. Hunt Company. Fromthe car in the unloading shed the coal is shoveledby hand into the receiving hoppers, then the con-veyor carries it under the boiler room floor to theend elevator, thence to the coal hoppers overheadwhere a horizontal conveyor distributes it through-out their length. From the hoppers it is fed bygravity into the stoker hoppers. The vertical con-veyor also carries the ashes from the ash pits anddelivers them into the two center hoppers located infront of the stack, from which they are drawn by gravitydirectly into the receiving car in the unloading shed. Bythis arrangement the fuel and refuse ashes are handledonly once. The conveyor driving machinery is located The peculiar arrangement of piping with long sweepsmakes it flexible and abolishes the use of expansion joints. The engine room contains one Reynolds-Corliss tan-dem compound condensing engine with cylinders 30
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