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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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al from the canal boats and dumps it into areceiving hopper, whence it passes to a weighing hop-per with a capacity of 2000 lbs. on a Fairbanks scales.After weighing it drops through a chute into a crusherdriven by the same motor. After crushing, the coal dropsinto the conveyor, which is driven by a 15-h.p. motor. Theconveyor carries it up and dumps it into the coal bins over 10 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. Vol. XV., No. i. the boilers. The returning buckets pass down the eastern concrete on corrugated iron arch plates. They were built side of the boiler room and through a tunnel below the boil- by the Structural Iron Company, and have a capacity of ers, where they catch the ashes from the ash hoppers and 2000 tons. The coal is delivered into the furnaces of the bring them out on the return journey, dumping them into boilers through measuring hoppers, each having a capacity an ash tank, from which they are transferred to other canal of 1000 lbs. The coal from the rear or auxiliary bins can
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FIG. I.—PLAN AND SECTION OF ENGINE ROOM—CAPITAL TRACTION CO. boats or to carts to be carried away. The capacity of the be chuted down through three supplementary chutes set conveyor is 30 tons per hour. The coal used is run of between the boilers to the conveyer in the ash tunnel, and mine Cumberland. The coal bins are duplicate bins, can then be carried up again and dumped into the forward built of steel, and occupy the entire space above the boil- or main bin. ers, or 162 ft. 9J ins. x 60 ft. The bins are lined with Water for the boilers is pumped from a well in the base-

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