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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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is employed,consisting of a narrow-gage electric locomotive and two Hunt auto-matic side-dumping cars. The train being backed into one of thetunnels is loaded as above described and after crossing the streetis run onto scales, as shown in iMg. 31, where each car is weighed. MAKVAHI) rOWKR STATION.This being the last new station creeled, having been completedin i8y8, the nature of the power e(;uipmcnl is of interest. This con-sists of six soo-h. p. Habcock & Wilcox boilers with economizersand smokestack for twice this number. At this station the boilersare fitted with Acme stokers, these being the only mechanicalstokers used by the Boston Klevaled. The main engine ctjuipmentcomprises three comprjund corliss engines, 28 and 56 by 60 in., mailfby the Allis company, direct connected to 1.200-kw. (jeneral Elec-tric generators. An exienderl description of this plant ami the re-sults of a 45-hour lest 111 the station were published in tin- Reviewfor December, likjH, page 875, et se<;.
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FIG. 311-COAl, WHARF.Fit;. 32-ALLSTON COAL CAR. FIG. 31-SCALES.FIG. 13-HARVARD COAL CAR. when the train proceeds to the boiler room over a slightly elevatedtrack where the cars are unloaded in front of the boiler, the carsbeing so constructed that they dump a load without shoveling. For transporting the coal to some of the stations and car housestwo types of coal cars are employed, both of which are loaded in tlietunnels as already described. A car that delivers coal to the AU-ston power station and car houses is shown in Fig. 32. It carries anumber of steel buckets, provided with heavy cross arms or bails,which are so designed that they can be unloaded by hoists, andbeing lifted are run by overhead trolleys and dumped at any desiredlocation, and the bucket returned to the car. Fig. 33 is an electriccoal car with a capacity of 30,000 lb. serving the Harvard station.This consists of a single bin into which the coal is loaded in thetunnels and which is provided with side-dumping mechani

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