. Electric railway journal . FORT DODGE LINE—TURBINE ARRANGEMENT AND POWER-HOUSECONSTRUCTION August 26, 1916] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 347. FORT DODGE LINE—METHODS OF HANDLING COAL—UNDER-WATER STORAGE PIT eter and 212 ft. high. Each of these stacks has suffi-cient capacity to handle five boilers. In former years the cost of cleaning boilers amountedto as high as $300 per month. One gang of cleanerswas at work all of the time. The river water whichwas used contained from thirty to thirty-five grainsof scale-forming material per gallon. A little morethan a year ago a water-softening plant was in
. Electric railway journal . FORT DODGE LINE—TURBINE ARRANGEMENT AND POWER-HOUSECONSTRUCTION August 26, 1916] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 347. FORT DODGE LINE—METHODS OF HANDLING COAL—UNDER-WATER STORAGE PIT eter and 212 ft. high. Each of these stacks has suffi-cient capacity to handle five boilers. In former years the cost of cleaning boilers amountedto as high as $300 per month. One gang of cleanerswas at work all of the time. The river water whichwas used contained from thirty to thirty-five grainsof scale-forming material per gallon. A little morethan a year ago a water-softening plant was installedwhich reduces the scale-forming material to about threegrains per gallon. This is a continuous-process watersoftener manufactured by the William Graver TankWorks, East Chicago, 111. The cost of operation of thewater softener is about $40 per month, and its use hasalmost eliminated boiler cleaning. An extra supply ofsoftened water is stored in a large wooden tank whichformerly was used for engine water when steam loco-motives were operated. Under-Water Coal-Storage Plant Iowa coal has such a high sulphur content that whenst
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