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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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the lop of the building. Rail coal will be taken from a hopper under the coal wagons by aninclined elevator to the top of the building at the opposite end. The<listribution over the bunkers is by duplicate Ik-Ii conveyors so ar-ranged that the direction of travel of Ixjth lielts can berever.sed so as to handle coal coining in at either end.• The storage capacity of the bunkers is 15.000 tons. The daily consumption will reach 800 tons, and six of the larg-est river liarges can be placed in the basin at each tide. Ashes will be removed by an industrial railway workedby a storage battery locomotive; two lines of rails willbe laid under the ash hoppers on the ground floor. Theashes will drop into self-dumping buckets to be unloadedinto barges by pneumatic hoists on the dock wall at theWest end of the premises or stored in an adjoining binif no barge is available. The capstans, barge basin gate mechanism and manyof the large valves in the building will \x worked by pneu-matic motors.
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SECTION THROUGH ENGINE AND BOILER BOOM. CHELSEA STATION. engine foundations. The circulating water is supplied by 66-inclipipes laid to the edges of the channel of the Thames. Each con-denser has a 20-in. centrifugal pump; the duty of this pump is simplyto overcome the friction of the pipes, as the system is arranged onthe syphonic principle, the top of the condensers being within 29 ft.of minimum low tide, and the circuit is closed. The intake and discharge mains are arranged for reversible flow. The condensers arc designed to work on the dry vacuum principle,the air pump and the water pump licing separate. All the condenserpumps are electrically driven. The switchboard is carried on three gallery floors extending acrossthe north side of the engine room with returns across the east end.All high tension switches will be motor operated, and the feeder sys-tem extending to the 23 sub-stations will be in duplicate. A line of The electric motors on the traveling cranes over the engines, a

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