. The street railway review . -. The coal conveying system is being put in by theBorden & Selleck Company of Chicago, and will be thefinest plant of the kind in the west. In connection withthis a 2,000-ton coal storage house, 200 by 20 and 20 feethigh is built some distance back of and parallel with th^boiler room. Each wagon of coal is weighed on enter-ing ihe yard and is then driven to one corner of the coalstorage house. Here arrangements are made for dump-ing it. The load when dumped takes one of two either is raised and distributed by conveyors alongthe length of the storage, o
. The street railway review . -. The coal conveying system is being put in by theBorden & Selleck Company of Chicago, and will be thefinest plant of the kind in the west. In connection withthis a 2,000-ton coal storage house, 200 by 20 and 20 feethigh is built some distance back of and parallel with th^boiler room. Each wagon of coal is weighed on enter-ing ihe yard and is then driven to one corner of the coalstorage house. Here arrangements are made for dump-ing it. The load when dumped takes one of two either is raised and distributed by conveyors alongthe length of the storage, or it is raised 20 feet andtaken across the alley and distributed in bins above thefurnaces. From the latter place it is fed by chutes tothe furnaces. These bins have 400 tons capacity. Ofcourse arrangements are made for conveying from the. MURPllV FURNACES—CALIFORNIA AVENUE. storage to the boiler room bins. The whole set of con-veyors is run b) a 40-horse-po\ver electric motor. Thecapacity of the conveying system is 40 tons per Harrison noiseless conveyor is used. To feed the boilers Admiraliiy feed pumps are sup-plemented with Metropolitan injectors and exhaustfeed water heaters. All steam piping is under the floorand Westinghouse steam loops act as separators to returnto the boilers water condensed in the steam piping. The station is located on the Chicago river and jet con-densers are employed. There are four 1,000 horse-power cross compound condensing engines with 24 and40 by 48 inch cylinders. They are direct connected toSiemens & Halske generators. The armatures of thesemachines revolve outside the fields. The weight of thearmatures is 12 tons each. The fly wheel is 20 feet indiameter. The piping is of course arranged to run theengines condensing or non-condensing and to run highpressure in both eng
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