. American engineer and railroad journal . uilding. The method ofhandling the coal is to hoist it from the barges to the top of thetower by means of a two-ton steam shovel, where it is dumpedinto a hopper; from the latter it is discharged into the automaticcars which run on tracks on the platform extending from thetower to the building. The tracks are on a slight down grade,and the cars run into the building of their own weight, wherethey automatically dump their contents into the bins and returnautomatically to the hopper in the tower. From the bins thecoal is drawn off into wagons through ch
. American engineer and railroad journal . uilding. The method ofhandling the coal is to hoist it from the barges to the top of thetower by means of a two-ton steam shovel, where it is dumpedinto a hopper; from the latter it is discharged into the automaticcars which run on tracks on the platform extending from thetower to the building. The tracks are on a slight down grade,and the cars run into the building of their own weight, wherethey automatically dump their contents into the bins and returnautomatically to the hopper in the tower. From the bins thecoal is drawn off into wagons through chutes at the bottom, thatscreens the coal as it is delivered to consumers. Thus at no pointis the coal handled directly by men, and in getting it into thebins the number of men required is reduced to a minimum. Theengineer in the tower controls all [movements of the bucket, andtwo men are in charge of ,.the cars carrying the coal to the boiler room is down on the ground, and of course requires the 16 AMERICAN ENGINEER, CAR BUILDER. Fig. 2-
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