. The street railway review . ■yk .» -yf- 44S STREET RAILWAY REVII W [Vol Ml. No. & onstructed of Illinois Imff brick with white stowand Irimmings, the building, including I 4 in. \ 160 ft, 6 in. I hi engine am measures 199 it 6 in « 83 fl 5 in and the I>«•>Ur 1 n 198 11. -• in. \ |6 11. 0 111. I he stack 1- placed .it thi I the length of the boiler room with one wall flush with the wall separating the boiler distribute thi Ihis plan t arranging the machinery most I 1- it permits i additions at cither end of the apparatus .11 present installed derangement of the gplan thai 1- fo
. The street railway review . ■yk .» -yf- 44S STREET RAILWAY REVII W [Vol Ml. No. & onstructed of Illinois Imff brick with white stowand Irimmings, the building, including I 4 in. \ 160 ft, 6 in. I hi engine am measures 199 it 6 in « 83 fl 5 in and the I>«•>Ur 1 n 198 11. -• in. \ |6 11. 0 111. I he stack 1- placed .it thi I the length of the boiler room with one wall flush with the wall separating the boiler distribute thi Ihis plan t arranging the machinery most I 1- it permits i additions at cither end of the apparatus .11 present installed derangement of the gplan thai 1- followi d out Bj reference t the half tone illustrations and the line drawingshowing the station in section it will Ik- seen that coal trains may. SWITCHBOARD GALLERY IN POWER STATION. From the engine and room. The coal stot .5 it. wide inside the walls and extends the entire length of thebuilding and is divided by brick walls into 18 compartments in thebottom of each of which are two steel hoppers. Each of the 18bunkers has a capacity of 3,771 cu. ft., and 1- designed to hold tootons 1 if coal. A well defined plan lut~ been followed in the construction ofboth the power station and the sub-stations. This is the transmis-sion of all power, both steam and electrical, in one direction acrosstin whili all tin- elements in a longitudinal direction arein the nature of equalizers. Thus, will be seen in the power house,first, a row of coal bunkers extending the length of the building he run over the hunkers and the contents dumped. In the base-ment, under the coal bunkers and boiler room, there are tracks of _n Hi rails laid to - It. OUtsil et which are run small cars ol about 1 ton capacity for transferring coal to the boiler b
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