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Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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bridge tramway moves on a cir-cular track, storing the coal in a circularpile. The inner or double pier of themachine, on which are mounted the en-gines and other mechanism, turns on a cir-cular track of smaller diameter surround-ing the pit around which the bridge ro-tates. Coal is delivered on two tracks oncither side of the rotating double pier andis duinped and run into a pit directly the tracks have a storage capacity of 2,300tons and the ash-pocket has a capacity of250 tons. The bridge tramway storageplant has a capacity of 8,000 tons, and thiscould readily be increased if desired. Ina very ingenious coaling station recentlyconstructed for the Baltimore & OhioRailroad, at Kings Mines, Ohio, the coal-pocket is filled direct from a mine closeat hand by means of an aerial cablewayon which are moved automatic lumpingbuckets similar to those previously de-scribed. M. H. Treadwell & Co., 97 Libertystreet, New York, have favored us with anew catalogue of their freight and tank
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COALING POCKETS AT KINGS MINES, ON THE BALTIMORE & OHIO, SUPPLIED DIRECT FROM MINE. nished locomotives from this plant with-out increasing the working force and final-ly a dynamo in the engine room enables theelectrical illuinination of the plant at niglit.In some places where a reserve coal sup-ply of large quantity has been required alocomotive coaling station has been con-structed in connection with a coal storageand re-handling plant, consisting of eithera bridge tramway, such as is used in un-loading coal or iron ore from vessels ora cantilever type of machine based on theprinciple of the great cantilever craneswhich are employed to handle heavy mate-rial in shipbuilding plants and other in-dustrial institutions. The New York Cen- under the pier, whence it is hoisted in agrab-bucket of 2J/2 tons capacity and con-veyed out over the storage space anddumped. The same mechanism is alsoused to pick the coal up and convey it backto the cars in which the fuel is shipped toany locomo

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