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Identifier: streetrailwayjo311908newy (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.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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EXTERIOR POWELL AVENUE STATION OF THE BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY, LIGHT & POWER COMPANY street railway service and furnishes current for generalcentral station service, besides heating practically the entirebusiness district with exhaust steam. The latter serviceextends for a maximum distance of about one mile fromthe station. coal into a Jeffrey crusher, driven by a 15-hp motor, andafter the coal leaves the crusher it is delivered through aspout into a skip bucket which is hoisted by a Hunt engineup an incline to a point about 60 ft. above the boiler roomfloor. The capacity of the skip bucket is two tons, and the
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886 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXXL No. 22. coal handling system as a whole is capable of delivering 600tons to the plant per day of 12 hours. The boilers arelocated on both sides of a central firing aisle with overheadcoal bunkers between, as is shown in the accompanyingcross-section. After the skip bucket has reached the limitof its travel it discharges the coal into a second Himtcrusher and thence is delivered to the bunkers by an i8-in.conveyor. This conveyor traverses the entire length of theboiler room. When the plant is completed the ashes will beremoved by industrial cars running on rails in a sub-base-ment beneath the firing aisle. The plant now contains 31 Babcock & Wilcox watertube boilers built for 175 lb. pressure. Seven of these boil-ers are rated at 400 hp each and the other 24 are rated at600 hp each. Four of the 600-hp units are hand fired, theremaining 27 boilers being equipped with the Green En-gineering Companys chain grate stokers. The boilers areall design

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  • bookid:streetrailwayjo311908newy
  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:896
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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