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Identifier: streetrailwayjo231904newy (find matches)
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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CONSTRUCTION OF COAL BUNKER Spanish roll pattern. The chimneys are faced with brick ofthe same quality as used in the facework of the structure. Theinterior of the operating room is faced with brick of a light buffcolor, and the trim of all doors, sash, etc., is covered with kala-mein iron or sheet copper. This trim is reduced to a minimum,so that the building is fireproof in the strictest sense.
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January 23, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 139 EQUIPMENT The power house is 200 ft. wide on Eleventh Avenue, andextends westward 694 ft. Its height, from the basement floorto the highest point of the roof, is 125 ft. The structure isdivided into two main sections: A boiler house on the south,or Fifty-Eighth Street side, and an operating house on thenorth, or Fifty-Ninth Street side, each extending the full depthof the building. On the Eleventh Avenue end is extended a track connectedwith the main line of the New York Central Railroad, and thisis used in bringing machinery and materials into the building.Coal, however, is conveyed into the building with a belt con-veyor. This conveyor extends to a pier in the North River, atthe foot of West Fifty-Eighth Street, 700 ft. in length. Fromthe pier the coal is conveyed underground to a point at thesouthwest end of the building, where it is raised by an ele-vating belt system to the coal bunkers constructed in the roof.The bunkers have a capa

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