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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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it andthe stones and pebbles pass out the open end to a dump. Thegravel is used for ballast and concrete work. From the feed binthe sand is fed into the drying cylinder by a screw. The drying cylinder is over a furnace, as shown in the sectionalview. The rotating chamber has on the interior surface projectingfins to insure the sand heinec mi.xed as it dries. From the drying The first story is for the fillers and oil storage tanks, the secondstory for the oil extracting and washing machinery, and the thirdstory for drying the laundered waste. The three stories are sep-arated by fire-proof floors, supported on I-beams. Each of thethree rooms is about 2i ft. long by lO ft. wide inside. The longitudinal section. Fig. \. shows the general arrangementof the plant; the arched portion at the right indicates the doors(which open on the street), one door on each floor. Figs. B and C show a plan and a longitudinal elevation of thesecond story, with full details as to the driving trains. The ma-
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