English: Identifier: streetrailwayrev15amer

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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Text Appearing Before Image: s discharge into a 2,000-h. p. National closed heater andthence into a 5-in. feed line running parallel with the boiler fronts.The heater is supplied with steam from the exciter engines andother auxiliary apparatus. The coal conveying system consists of a pan Cduveym- taking thecoal directly from hopper bottom railroad cars to a motor-drivencrusher, from which it is elevated to storage bins over the lioUerroom; these bins have a capacity of i,000 tons. The conveyor sys-tem is of the .Mtman type and was installed by the Interstate Engi-neering Co. It has an hourly capacity of 60 tons. The firing isby hand, coal is dropped in front of the furnaces from the bins bymeans of supply pipes. Ashes are taken care of by an ash-washwhich consists of a concrete lined gutter through which runningwater carries the ashes, wilbmit handling, to the river. The engim?room is spanned by a ,vniiitor Cleveland girder crane of 30 tonscapacity. Tn the engine room are three vertical cross compound condensing.

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