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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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allowing a man to stand close to his \v6rk. The trench alongwhich the chain conveys the ashes and clinkers consists of a liningof brick at the bottom of which is a layer of cement covered withone inch of sand. On top of this sand a concrete trough is built 820 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW (Vol. XV, No. n. of a section designed to fit the scrapers of the conveyor chain. Thelayer of sand was placed in the trench below the trough so thatwhen the trough becomes too much worn and it is necessary to re-place it, the concrete may be broken and thus removed withoutdestroying the other portion of the trench construction. Thistrench is 96 ft. long e.Ntending in front of all the boilers- and to thesouth wall of the building. Here the conveyor chain dumps itsload into elevating buckets which carry the ashes to cars on aswitch track outside the building.The main steam header 18 in. in diameter is parallel with the ^^ Lines IfV SPCQUTION™i INC5 PPOPOSiD• Po>^£JfPLftvTfino SHOPS Srffin ffitiLPcios
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.M.-\r SHOWING LINES CONNECTING SOUTH CHICAGO, HAMMOND, WHIT-ING AND EAST CHICAGO. row of boilers, but on the engine room side of the partition wallbetween the boiler and engine rooms. Each boiler unit may be cutoff by either or both of two valves, one near the boiler outlet and oneat the header. By means of two gate valves the header may bedivided into three sections. The connections between the boilersand the main steam header tap into the bottom of the header andthe engine connections lead off from the top of the header, eachthrough a valve. There are drip taps on both sides of the valveswhich control the boiler connections. The main header is connectedwith a vertical free exhaust pipe extending through the roof andprovided with an Excelsior back pressure valve. There are three E. P. Allis horizontal corliss engines with cylin-ders 22 X 48 in. These engines arc designed to run at 80 r. p. m.and have flywheels each 20 ft. in diameter with a 36-in. face. The engines drive, by means o

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