. The Street railway journal . POWER HOUSE AT TRIBES HILL and used exclusively for the electrical division of the POWER HOUSEThe power station of the Fonda, Johnstown & GloversvilleRailway is unquestionably one of the largest and most up-to- mings, and is divided into three sections. The boiler room atthe north side measures 85 ft. x 162 ft.; the engine room,52 ft. x 153 ft. 3 ins. and 74 ft. from the basement floor to thepeak of the roof, and a wing 21 ft. 4 ins. x 143 ft. 4 ins. at the. freer Railway Journal SECTION OF MAIN POWER HOUSE date interurban stations in the countr
. The Street railway journal . POWER HOUSE AT TRIBES HILL and used exclusively for the electrical division of the POWER HOUSEThe power station of the Fonda, Johnstown & GloversvilleRailway is unquestionably one of the largest and most up-to- mings, and is divided into three sections. The boiler room atthe north side measures 85 ft. x 162 ft.; the engine room,52 ft. x 153 ft. 3 ins. and 74 ft. from the basement floor to thepeak of the roof, and a wing 21 ft. 4 ins. x 143 ft. 4 ins. at the. freer Railway Journal SECTION OF MAIN POWER HOUSE date interurban stations in the country. The site selected is atTribes Hill, on the Mohawk River, a few miles from Amster-dam, at a point where the interurban road leaves the river,which it has paralleled all the way from Schenectady. Thebuilding is on a level with the tracks of the New York Central& Hudson River Railroad, which it faces, and is about 40 ft. front side of the building. The roof of the engine room sectionis supported on steel trusses and perlins. The coal bunkers are located on the boiler room roof, whichis approximately on a level with the interurban track, and theyare reached by a steel viaduct, cars being run in from the mainline and coal dumped into the bunkers, five in number, having August 29, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 309 a total capacity of 1200 tons. Coal is conveyed from eachbunker to the boiler room below by the Hunt Conveyorsystem. There are valves at the base of the bunkers and atthe bottom of the
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