1898 Boston Elevated Railway map (14761334845)

Identifier: streetrailwayrev08amer (find matches)
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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economizers and chimney. The coal handling facilities at this point are unique and eco-nomical. Stokers are not used. Coal is delivered at the wharfon Albany street by schooners and barges and is hauled from thewhaif into the boiler room by an electric mining locomotive withtwo automatic Hunt side dumping cars attached. The haulageis about 950 ft. at the farthermost on a narrow gage track. Coal Is taken from tunnels under the coal pile on the wharf ^tM-S^cui>vl^S\g:vlc^ 535 and after crossing Albany street, at grade, the cars cross thescale platform at the gate house where all the coal is weighed.Then the train rises on a gentle grade to the boiler house, pass-ing down through the center on a trestle 21/2 ft. high, and delivers On the wharf the methods of handling coal are no less interest-ing. A traveling bridge crane with a span of 150 ft. betweentracks, does all the handling of coal between the vessel and thecars. In the cab at the water end of the crane is a motor with \ -<
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coal at any point required, no trimming being done at all. Ashesare taken out by the same cars and dumped on either side of aspur track. From here, at a profit to the company, they arecarted away for filling. friction drums, gearing, etc., which controls all the movementsof the bucket, dropping it into the barge, picking up the coal anddumping it at any point under the crane, generally over thetunnels through which the coal passes by chutes to the cars. 53(i ^lJMi^£uivv^^vi(^ Coal can also be picked up on the wharf and transferred to anypart of it by the same mechanism. The lateral movement of thebridge crane is for convenience in unloading from any part ofa vessel and is controlled by a separate motor. From the wharfalso coal is hauled by cars to different car houses in the systemand to the AUston and Harvard power stations. The smoke stack at this station is the largest and highest inthe vicinity of Boston, being 252 ft. from the yard to tht top and13 ft. 8 in. inside diameter of f

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