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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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g the Union Elevated loop and part ofthe Lake Street Elevated. The accompanying engraving shows theIjoiler room, which is efiuipped with ten .Standard water tube boilersof 400 h. p. each and Murphy mechanical stokers. The coal is thrown from the cars in front of the building into ahopper and is carried by a convejor to an elevator which raises it tothe top of the hoppers, where a distributing convejor carries thecoal to the various hoppers as it is required. The a.shes from thefurnaces are discharged into the basement into steel cars, where anelevator raises them into a hopper from which they are dischargedinto a railway car or barge. The design of the whole plant is to make it automatic in everyrespect, and this has been accomplished in a marked degree. Afterthe coal has been .shoveled from the cars, no manual labor is requiredfor the operation of the plant, as the handling of the coal and ashesis entirely accomplished by machinery and was installed by theLink Belt Machinery Company.
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BOILER ROOM OF NORTH CHICAGO RAILWAY. The entire boiler is .suspended from the steel beams independentof the brickwork and so arranged that the walls may be repairedwithout disturbing the boiler. Amyile provision is made for repair-ing and cleaning the boilers, and the steam and water drums are ofsufficient size to permit a man to work in them with comfort. The Canadian Electric Railway & Power Company has beenincorporated at Toronto, Can., by Castle Smith, London, Eng.; JamesKerr Osborne, Lyman Melvin Jones, George W. Beardmore, Wil-liam Herbert Cawthra and Edmund Bristol, of Toronto, and EdwardI. Fauquier, of Ottawa, Can., to construct and operate electric rail-ways between Montreal, Brockville, King.ston, Belleville, Toronto,Hamilton, London and Windsor and to V)uild branch lines not toexceed twenty-five miles in length. Capital stock;i,250,000, 258 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XII. No. 4. Improvements in Open Heaters. The relative merits of open and closed feedwater heaters h

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