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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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irectly from the cars. The location alongside the dock to which barges are brought isabout 500 ft. from the west front of the boiler house. A highlevel cable railway runs from the coal hoisting tower on the dockinto and through the top of the boiler house, over the coal pocket.at an elevation of 107 ft. above the dock level. This cable rail-way is in the form of a loop and is operated by an endless cable.motion being imparted to the cars by means of a simple form ofcable grip. After this single hoisting operation, the coal is passedalong to its destination in the pocket by gravity and by transporta-tion in cars along the level cable railway. The hoisting tower i a & . o 0 - ■J43 U -*-» T3 a ■4— Rj *-> O 0 -— a •—• o ao o C3 rt c > a» CC> - 0 > ^H =- 7. « > u- ■*-> o • — J CJ 0) .XI
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Apr. 15, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW 183 apparatus is a simple application of heavy, rugged steam hoistingengines of standard type, with an arrangement of ropes, sheavesand counterweights similar to that in satisfactory use for years pastin the best steam elevator practice. The coal is hoisted in a two-ton bucket of the clam-shell type, with heavy renewable steelcutting blades. The receiving hopper is built of steel plate andthe coal passes through it by gravity on to the shaking bottomwhich allows certain small coal to pass around the crusher to theloading hopper and delivers the large coal to the crusher. Theshaking grate and the crusher are operated by the same engine. The crusher has a capacity of 400 tons in five hours, and thecoal after passing through it drops directly into the loading hop-pers which are directly above the scale platform. They are equippedwith gates operated by the weigher who regulates the movement ofthe cars. The scales have a capacity of five tons. The cabl

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