. The Street railway journal . \[EW OF INTERIOR TAKEN FROM THE ROOF yard is 319 ft. long by 117 ft. 6 in. wide, enclosed by re-taining walls entirely spanned by a Mead-Morrison gantrycrane, with a two-ton bucket having a capacity of over 50 tonsper hour. The approximate coal storage is 30,000 long tons. 784 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXL No. 19. The railroad companys coal cars are run in on a sidingand directly over reinforced concrete coal pockets, underwhich is an industrial railroad track on the same level asthe boiler room floor. On this industrial track run charg-ing cars, into which
. The Street railway journal . \[EW OF INTERIOR TAKEN FROM THE ROOF yard is 319 ft. long by 117 ft. 6 in. wide, enclosed by re-taining walls entirely spanned by a Mead-Morrison gantrycrane, with a two-ton bucket having a capacity of over 50 tonsper hour. The approximate coal storage is 30,000 long tons. 784 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXL No. 19. The railroad companys coal cars are run in on a sidingand directly over reinforced concrete coal pockets, underwhich is an industrial railroad track on the same level asthe boiler room floor. On this industrial track run charg-ing cars, into which the coal from the concrete hoppersmay be dumped and wheeled directly in front of the the coal supply exceeds the •equirements of the. THE SWITCIIBUAKI) (. power house the surplus will be permitted to flow from thepockets through gates provided on the side of each hopperinto the storage yard and will be distributed by the gantrycrane. The boilers at present installed are of the Stirling type,build for a working pressure of 180 lb. per square inchand are provided with Stirling U type superheaters de-signed to give 100 deg. superheat. Theyare provided with flat grates, the frontand rear section of which are dumping,the remaining portions being it is the intention of the Delaware &Hudson Company to use a low grade ofanthracite birds-eye coal, the ratio ofgrate surface to heating surface in theboilers is unusually large; approximatelyI to 30. The boiler feed water is supplied bytwo horizontal duplex pumps, 14 in. x 9in. X 12 in., so piped that either pumpmay supply water to any of the boilersafter first passing through the feed-water heaters. The feed water is takenfrom the river through the tunn
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