. The Street railway journal . reas-urer, D. W. Dixon; general manager, J. T. Gorman. Thechief engineer of the company is F. W. Darlington. Power Stations:—This company has now in operation,or is about to install in the immediate future, three power completed, will consist of twenty Babcock & Wilcoxboilers of 375 h. p. each, arranged in two parallel rows,with a central passageway twenty feet three inches inwidth. As shown in the cross section, the coal for fuel isdumped, on the Andress Street side of the station,directly into vaults provided for the purpose. It is thencarried by mechanical con
. The Street railway journal . reas-urer, D. W. Dixon; general manager, J. T. Gorman. Thechief engineer of the company is F. W. Darlington. Power Stations:—This company has now in operation,or is about to install in the immediate future, three power completed, will consist of twenty Babcock & Wilcoxboilers of 375 h. p. each, arranged in two parallel rows,with a central passageway twenty feet three inches inwidth. As shown in the cross section, the coal for fuel isdumped, on the Andress Street side of the station,directly into vaults provided for the purpose. It is thencarried by mechanical conveyors through an elevator shaft,provided for the purpose, to the top of the building whenceit descends by chutes. The coal conveyors for hoistingthe coal to the top of the building, are supplied by the LinkBelt Company, and consist of 7 X 14 in. buckets locatedevery eighteen inches on an endless chain. The ashesdescend into ash tunnels, one located under each row ofboilers, whence they are removed by a similar system of. ^ Street Railway Journal FIG. 2.—CROSS SECTION OF BOILER ROOM—13TH STREET POWER STATION OF PHILADELPHIA TRACTION CO. stations, of 10,000, 7,500 and 3,000 h. p. ultimate capacityeach, and located, respectively, at the corners of 13thStreet and Mount Vernon Avenue, 33d Street and MarketStreet, and Southerland Avenue and Kansas Street. Aview of the first mentioned station is given in Fig. station is of brick, with brownstone trimmings, andoccupies an area of 171^2X186 ft. At present about one-third of the equipment has been installed, and this is nowemployed in furnishing power for the Thirteenth & Fif-teenth Streets line. On January 1, it was hoped that theTwelfth & Sixteenth Streets line would be in operationfrom this station. The power house is composed of two buildings sepa-rated by a wall two feet in thickness, and is fireproofthroughout. The arrangement of the boiler room isshown by the two diagrams (Figs. 2 and 3) which are,respectively, th
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