RM2A2W7TW–Coal Pockets at New Bedford, Robert Swain Gifford (American, 1840-1905), 1879, ink
RMP3GTFT–347 View from the Coal Pockets, Lackawaxen, by E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)
RMKENFAA–View from the Coal Pockets, Lackawaxen, by E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)
RMR38RK9–Viaduct, Coal Pockets. Dated: 1908. Dimensions: plate: 25.24 × 19.05 cm (9 15/16 × 7 1/2 in.) sheet: 28.26 × 21.59 cm (11 1/8 × 8 1/2 in.). Medium: etching in black on wove paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Earl Horter.
RMW3899P–View from the Coal Pockets, Lackawaxen, by E & HT Anthony (Firm)
RM2F5M9WG–Coal Pockets, Loading Canal Boats.. M.A. Kleckner (American, active Pennsylvania 1870s)
RMTXH3FK–The Penitent, or Fireman. This was the miner who, swathed in damp sacking, undertook the task of igniting pockets of which, the inflammable gas Methane, called Fire-damp which, if allowed to build up, could cause disastrous explosions in coal mines. From 'Le Voleur' (Paris, 30 March 1877). Engraving.
RM2T6EH7K–USS Maine (ACR-1)- Arrangement for Filling Athwartship Coal Pockets
RMTXH3E6–The Penitent, or Fireman. This was the miner who, swathed in damp sacking, undertook the task of igniting pockets of which, the inflammable gas Methane, called Fire-damp which, if allowed to build up, could cause disastrous explosions in coal mines. From 'Underground Life; or, Mines and Miners' by Louis Simonin (London, 1869). Wood engraving. Mining.
RMFGH7H5–View from the Coal Pockets, Lackawaxen, by E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)
RF2B95KN0–Coal Pockets at New Bedford, Robert Swain Gifford (American, 1840-1905), 1879, ink, Reimagined by Gibon, design of warm cheerful glowing of brightness and light rays radiance. Classic art reinvented with a modern twist. Photography inspired by futurism, embracing dynamic energy of modern technology, movement, speed and revolutionize culture.
RMD95M62–The Penitent, or Fireman. This was the miner who, swathed in damp sacking, undertook the task of igniting pockets of which, the inflammable gas Methane, called Fire-damp which, if allowed to build up, could cause disastrous explosions in coal mines. From 'Der Stein der Weisen' (Leipzig, c1895). Engraving.
RMHTJMPT–The Penitent, or Fireman. This was the miner who, swathed in damp sacking, undertook the task of igniting pockets of which, the inflammable gas Methane, called Fire-damp which, if allowed to build up, could cause disastrous explosions in coal mines. From
RM2AX2WCD–New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . in the west in 1884, the surviving partners formed the presentfirm. THE COAL BUSINESS. The coal pockets of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & IronCompany loom up conspicuously when the city is approached fromthe water front. The wharf and pockets are located at the foot ofWalnut street and the plant was established in 1874-75. After beingleased to several parties, possession and operation were resumed bythe owners and builders in 1882 as a forwarding and distributing depotfor the companys coals for the local mil
RM2WYBCKY–HOPPING IN KENT: HOP-PICKING IN YALDING, KENT, ENGLAND, UK, 1944 - Two men work to compress dried hops on the press in the oast house on a hop farm in Yalding, Kent. The original caption explains the process: 'sometimes coal heated furnaces are used, the hot air from the being conveyed to the top storey of the oast house by suction fans, to blow on the hops laid out in horse hair cloths'. The hops are then compressed into sacks or 'pockets', which contain 140-150 bushels and weigh 1 and a half cwts. The pockets are then sent off to the brewer. ,
RFANN4G7–Portrait of a female coal miner standing with her hands in her pockets
RF2C160PF–18th century illustration of how the mine-shaft would sunk, encounter springs and pockets of subsurface waters. Published in 'A Diderot Pictorial Ency
RMB7NGXW–Pockets of smoke rise after a hot fire has just sweot through this African savanna
RMG3BEEM–Three Frenchwomen in fashionable outfits, WW1
RM2CTE8HY–View from the Coal Pockets, Lackawaxen., E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm), Erie Railroad Company, Railroads, New York (State
RMP3GTFB–. View from the Coal Pockets, Lackawaxen. Alternate Title: Views of Beautiful scenery along the Line of the Erie Railway. Coverage: [1860?-1875?]. Source Imprint: New York : E. & H.T. Anthony, [1860?-1875?]. Digital item published 4-27-2006; updated 2-11-2009. 347 View from the Coal Pockets, Lackawaxen, by E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)
RMB0KF5J–A strike in Paris, 1898. Artist: Henri Meyer
RM2F5N326–View from the Coal Pockets - Lackawaxen. Erie Railway between New York and Niagara. Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. (American, founded 1862, merged 1902)
RM2HWBCNX–Coal Pockets at New Bedford. Artist: Robert Swain Gifford, American, 1840–1905
RM2W92RXM–Miner, Jan de Waardt, 1898 drawing Standing miner, back, three -quarters to the right, with mustache and beard, the hands in his pockets. In the Belgian village of Flénu. Borinage paper. chalk. ink working class, labourers. miner. anthracite, hard coal Borinage. Tongue
RF2B97FWW–View from the Coal Pockets - Lackawaxen. Erie Railway between New York and Niagara, Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. (American, 1862 - 1902), about 1869, Albumen silver print, Reimagined by Gibon, design of warm cheerful glowing of brightness and light rays radiance. Classic art reinvented with a modern twist. Photography inspired by futurism, embracing dynamic energy of modern technology, movement, speed and revolutionize culture.
RMD95M4J–The Penitent, or Fireman. This was the miner who, swathed in damp sacking, undertook the task of igniting pockets of which, the inflammable gas Methane, called Fire-damp which, if allowed to build up, could cause disastrous explosions in coal mines. From 'Le Voleur' (Paris, 30 March 1877). Engraving.
RM2AFM2XX–. [Reports vol. I-XIII]. Coal pocketsvisited. Pockets in MillerCo. ferred to in the foot note below. In addition such depositshave been visited by the Survey during the past two years inMorgan, Miller, Moniteau, Cooper and Saline counties. Theselast counties, with the addition of Cole, Callaway and Lincolncounties are the ones in which coal pockets are most frequentand most extensive. A description of a few occurrences recentlyinspected here, will therefore, give a good general idea of thenature of these very interesting deposits. The Barnard coal pit, & iu Miller county, north of the Osageri
RM2T1KM3M–Hopping in Kent- Hop-picking in Yalding, Kent, England, UK, 1944 Two men work to compress dried hops on the press in the oast house on a hop farm in Yalding, Kent. The original caption explains the process: 'sometimes coal heated furnaces are used, the hot air from the being conveyed to the top storey of the oast house by suction fans, to blow on the hops laid out in horse hair cloths'. The hops are then compressed into sacks or 'pockets', which contain 140-150 bushels and weigh 1 and a half cwts. The pockets are then sent off to the brewer.
RFANN3YB–Portrait of a man standing with his hands in his pockets
RMW520YT–View from the Coal Pockets - Lackawaxen. Erie Railway between New York and Niagara, Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. (American, 1862 - 1902), about 1869, Albumen silver print
RMTDPGM1–. ORIGINAL CANAL COAL POCKETS Source- Delaware and Hudson Railroad and Canal, by Wayne County Historical Society. - Honesdale Coal Pockets, Main and Commercial Streets, between 700 and 800 blocks, Honesdale, Wayne County, PA; Honesdale National Bank; Yearby, Jean P, transmitter; Drasba, C J, photographer
RMD95M3F–The Penitent, or Fireman. This was the miner who, swathed in damp sacking, undertook the task of igniting pockets of which, the inflammable gas Methane, called Fire-damp which, if allowed to build up, could cause disastrous explosions in coal mines. From 'Underground Life; or, Mines and Miners' by Louis Simonin (London, 1869). Wood engraving. .
RM2AWFCHW–New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . in the west in 1884, the surviving partners formed the presentfirm. THE COAL BUSINESS. The coal pockets of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & IronCompany loom up conspicuously when the city is approached fromthe water front. The wharf and pockets are located at the foot ofWalnut street and the plant was established in 1874-75. After beingleased to several parties, possession and operation were resumed bythe owners and builders in 1882 as a forwarding and distributing depotfor the companys coals for the local mil
RFANN3Y9–Close up of a man standing with his hands in his pockets
RM2AJJE7A–American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . Coal-Pockets at New Bedford, Mass. ORIGINAL ETCHING R. SWAIN GIFFORD. In the choice of his subjects Mr. Gifford is thoroughly American, very few of his platesrepresenting foreign scenes. In the quality of frankness, to use a term first naturalized in English by Mr. Hamerton, webelieve, Mr. Gifford is not excelled by any other American etcher. He has learned to a high degreethe art of saying much with little, and therefore makes every line tell. This etching is one of the numerous ones that Mr. Gifford has produced while l
RFANN4H1–Profile of a coal miner
RM2AKG17C–Popular science monthly . leaves six compartments for the coal. If you will stud the sectional view ofthe Milazzo, which appears on theopposite page, you will sec that the com-partments are merely coal-pockets, sim-ilar to those built on wharves. Beneaththe coal-pockets, little cars run on rails.When tloors, cut in the slanting planesforming the bottoms of the coal pockets,.ire opened, tin- coal runs down into thesecars by its own wi-ight. hen a car isfull, it is lifted boilily through verticalelevating shafts up to the main deckto an unloading platfomi, adjustable inluight. Phen it is til
RM2AN8D98–Old New York yesterday & today . jitrfn nf ^e&j ^ork from ^lEaliafuh, 1S25 Taken from near the site of the Hamilton-Burr duel. This picturesque region is now wholly covered by huge coal pockets, railroad terminals, army docks and foreign steamship piers. Above the cliffs to which the road leads, lies a very pretty suburban city connected with New York by ferry.. iifrirr ^ ^rnaiiluay from pEg to ^arclay ^irtct, 1HI3 Rare drawing of Broadway, showing St. Pauls and the Park View Hotel (Aster House) about 1843. The small two-story houses at the left are part of the block between Fulton and Dey Str
RM2AM1X9G–Illustrated Buffalo: the queen city of the lakes . next five years. Wo now have nine shippingdocks and coal pockets in the city, with a daily average shipping capacity of 27,500 tons. In addition to these,just over the city line in Cheektowaga is the stocking coal trestle of the Delaware Lackawana & Western Eail-road Company, with a capacity of more than 100,000 tons storage. Also at the same place the Lehigh Com-pany has built a stocking plank of 150,000 tons storage, with a daily shipping capacity of 2,000 tons. At theBame point the Eric railroad has a plant for storing 100,000 tons, and for
RM2CH0GMC–. The elements of railroad engineering . is stored ready for the use of locomotives. The link beltsare driven by sprocket wheels/and j^. The power is trans-mitted from the engine to the machinery by means of a wirerope belt. The main sheaves// and k are G feet in diameter.They are attached to shafts carrying pinions which drive thegears /and ;//, and with them the sprocket wheels/and £:The coal to be elevated to the coal pockets is first dumpedfrom the car ;/ into a chamber beneath the track. The coalruns by gravity from this chamber through the opening ointo the elevating chute /, which is li
RM2CR61EH–. Electric railway journal . SCRANTON & BINGHAMTON TRAFFIC—THREE-CAR PASSENGER TRAIN; TYPICAL VIEW OF LINE SHOWING AUTOMATIC SIGNALS MAY 20, 1916] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 941. SCRANTON & BINGHAMTON TRAFFIC—COAL POCKETS ATFACTORYVILLE to local lighting companies which are not affiliated inany way with the Scranton & Binghamton RailroadCompany. They are supplied, under contract, with cur-rent measured at the railroad companys switchboardand they retail it to their patrons, all of the wiring andapparatus required to serve the consumers belonging tothe lighting companies and being operated and ma
RM2CR4B1H–. On the Lehigh Valley. The great double track scenic highway, New York and Philadelphia to Buffalo and Niagara Falls . In the earlier days thispoint was one of the bus-iest on the Lehigh. Im-mense coal pockets re-ceived the coal from thecars, and through chutes it was loaded intothe boats of the Lehigh Canal and trans-ported to market. The great freshet of 1862put an end to this, and the coal thereafterwas shipped by rail. The coal branches of 23 the Lehigh Valley Railroad diverge atthis point, and the traveler or tourist is bythem taken to the great anthracite centersof Lehigh and Schuylkill
RM2CH40EB–. Electric railway gazette . Washing-ton Mills, Lawrence, Mass., which has recentlybeen completed by the Thomson-Houston Motorcompany. The tramway is used exclusively forcarrying coal from the coal pockets to the boiler to support th ■ trolley wire, which runs in heightfrom twelve feet where all is clear, to eight feetwhere the truck passes underneath a belt box be-tween two of the mill buildings, the springs onthe tro ley arm being so adjusted as to maintainan even pressure of the trolley against the con-ductor, irrespective of its height. The currentfor the operation of the motor car is supp
RM2CH2BBF–. Electric railway journal . Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Power Station—DistributingConveyor and Coal Pockets Provision is made in the substation building for the installationof storage batteries on the two upper floors in case their useshould later be considered advisable. Substation No. 3 is located in the basement of the TerminalBuilding about 90 ft. below the street surface. It comprises. Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Power Station—Indicatorsfor Signal System and Base of Turbines no heat is required in the building, the three 750-kw converterssupply all of the power necessary. ENGINEERING The
RM2CH4KJB–. Design of the freight yard of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad at Scranton, Pa. . of operation is ap-preciably Jess, since coal can be handled for two cents per tonin this manner as against three to nine cents by the mechanicalelevator method. Everything considered, the trestle or inclinedplane type seemed to be the best for the purpose. The sand dryer is on the sar>e trestle as the coal pockets ,and is located at their east end. It is of the ordinary type, siftedsand being dropped from cars on the track above dov/n through a net-work of steam pipes which thoroughly dry it, and
RM2CR949K–. Electric railway journal . HOLYOKE POWER PLANT—COAL POCKETS, TRACK HOPPER, RE-CLAIMING CRANE AND TOWER OF COAL-HANDLING SYSTEM With the use of a single turbine the reliability of servicein the districts supplied by it would not be as high ason the lines supplied by the various engine-drivendirect-current units, and the cost of duplicate a.c. unitsand transmission lines would have been prohibitive.Accordingly, it was decided to purchase power at Am-herst from the Turners Falls Power & Electric Com-pany, installing a motor-generator substation at thatpoint, and the Holyoke station was reconstr
RM2CGX70D–. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . f two different kinds areemployed. For the latter operation thereare utilized gravity-dumping tubs. These In connection with the coal-pockets ash-pits are provided. These are built of steeland placed under the locomotive at con-venient points so that the ashes can becleaned out while coal is being put aboardthe locomotive. For charging the coal-pocket and for taking out the ashes thereare employed automatic dumping tubs suchas are in general use in variousparts of thiscountry and in Europe fo
RM2CH2BTD–. Electric railway journal . March 5, 1910.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 391 Street, New York City, is equipped with five 1500-kw rotary-converters, with the transformers for reducing the 11,000-voltcurrent to 430 volts on the alternating side of the converters. supply to the Terminal Building, there are steam-driven gen-erators, which are used principally in the winter time whentheir exhaust steam is utilized for heating the building. When. Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Power Station—DistributingConveyor and Coal Pockets Provision is made in the substation building for the installationof storage
RM2CRFH9X–. The street railway review . coal is secured by gravity. The nextoperation is to transfer it from the coal pockets to the boiler fur-naci - The plant was not large enough to justify an investmentiu an via bo rate system of coal and ash handling apparatus and stor-age bins and yet the fact that the station was to operate nearly 20bonis each day for every day in the year made it desirable to adoptsome method of doing away with hand firing. The coal handlingdevice indicated on the cross section of the power house was se-lected as combining the advantage of small first investment with theability
RM2CR933E–. The Street railway journal . ement, to-gether with a blow-off tankand all the drainage featuresof the station. The coalpockets are in two divisions,one on each side of tire stack.The ventilation of the boilerhouse is also provided forbetween and on the sides ofthe coal pockets. The stacks,one of which will be built atpresent, are to be 265 ft. highby 14 ft. inside diameter.For a height of 90 ft., orabout the height of the powerhouse building, they will beof hard-burned brick linedwith firebrick. Above thatthere will be hollow, radiallymoulded brick of the Cus-todis make. The stacks aredesign
RM2CR81PW–. American engineer and railroad journal . e needed. These coils keep the stationthroughout at a temperature considerably above freezing andgreatly assist in its reliable operation under all conditions. In addition to the coal storage there are two concrete binsabove the coal pockets for the storage of dry sand, with dis-charges leading to each of the three tracks, so that sand andcoal can be taken at the same stop. The sand is dried in a sepa-rate structure near the coaling station and is elevated by meansof compressed air in the usual manner. This coaling station throughout was der.igned and
RM2CRA62B–. Railway maintenance engineering, with notes on construction . -^i.T^/^vy^/?;;^?;^^^^ Cross Section Fig. 142.—Coaling Platform, This chute (Fig. 1435), as in the type which preceded it, hadan elevated track reached by an inclined trestle approach, butthe bins or coal pockets were located below the track and thecoal was dumped into these, j&Hing them by gravity. Theelevated track in this case was considerably higher than in theold coal chute, and as 5 per cent was about the maximum gradeup which cars could be pushed by the switch engine, the longtrestle approach required a great deal of space.
RM2CH2CM3–. Electric railway journal . -H^HHHMHr--. Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Power Station—Plan of Coal and Ash Conveyor and Coal Pockets high potential layout is shown diagrammatically on the bench-board by means of miniature busbars. The various switchingoperations are shown by means of colored lights and mechani-cal indicators. Bull-switches are used on this board tominimize the danger from the accidental operation of theswitches by the operator. Above the bench board are the indicating instruments forthe alternators and feeders. Each panel represents analternator and a feeder group. The arrangeme
RM2CGX70R–. Ports and terminal facilities . nker coal. A coal ship wouldbunker there not because it is a coal harbor, but because thecoal harbor would happen to be the ships berth while in portloading or discharging cargo coal. Invariably bunker coal willbe brought to the ship and not the ship to the coal pockets.A ship in port has no time to shift its berth unless it be from adischarging to a loading berth. Therefore the coal lighter, withbunkering machinery if possible, but always the coal lighter,will come to the ship. In the Carribean, at Bridgetown and elsewhere ships are coaled 1 Bulletin No. 1 of
RM2CR9GEB–. Electric railway gazette . ler feed wateris supplied by the Passaic River. Water for theboilers is pumped from the river into storage tanksof about 200,000 gallons aggregate capacity, whichwill be located on a part of ground between thestation and the Pennsylvania Railroad. Hyatt fil-ters, manufactured by the New York Filter Com-pany, will be used for filtering the water before itis used. The location of the station affords excellentfacilities for receiving coal, which may be broughtdirectly to the station by railroad or boat. Twolarge coal pockets of 3,000 tons capacity each willbe built ov
RM2CR7GEK–. American engineer and railroad journal . r car-riage is a tripping mechanism arranged below the conveyortrack over the coal pockets, which will dump the buckets asthey pass it. It may be placed in any location over the pocketsfor dumping and filling up at that section, its position beingadjustable from the boiler room floor. This main conveyoralso will take care of the ashes from the furnaces. Ash pitsof bowl-shape are located in tne boiler foundations below thestokers from which the ashes may be scraped out into theconveyor passing in front, and then by adjusting the dumpercarriage properly
RM2CGXNPA–. Railroad structures and estimates . and- be re-elevated when necessary. This structure is a modification of the McHenry type of coalingplant, and consists of two double elevated coal pockets, locatedbetween three tracks and connected together on top by a housespanning two tracks; the bottom hopper, into which the coal isdumped, is located behind the main pocket on one side, and is ele-vated 6 feet 6 inches above the locomotive service track, and madewide enough to take side-dump as well as center-dump cars. The elevating mechanism consists of endless chain and bucketsand a steel boot. From t
RM2CGTMRJ–. The Street railway journal . d. Betweenthe engine room and the boilers is the Holly steam loopand gravity return system, which returns all water of con-densation to the boilers, the steam jackets with which boththe high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders of the en-gines are fitted being connected thereto. Behind the boiler house is a well, from which ample con-densing water can always be obtained, as it is suppliedfrom the creek before mentioned. The coal pockets arealso behind the building. Tracks, turntables, cars, etc.,furnished by the C. W. Hunt Company, of New York, arelaid so as to fa
RM2CR6244–. Electric railway journal . SCRANTON & BINGHAMTON TRAFFIC CREAMERY AT LAKE WINOLA 940 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLVII, No. 21. SCRANTON & BINGHAM TON TRAFFIC—COAL CAR BEING LOADED SCRANTON & BINGHAMTON TRAFFIC—PORTABLE SUBSTATION needs to be exhausted in retail sales, as witnessed bythe fact that the value of the companys culm holdingshas approximately doubled since acquisition. On theother hand, although the company has never contem-plated entering the coal business either on a wholesaleor retail basis, it has constructed coal pockets, at thetowns of Factoryville, Nicholson and Brooklyn
RM2CDE10X–. A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century . ST ^. C.J.) BR(JA|i AV (1S9S) BUILDING AND ARCHITECTURE IN NEW YORK. 701 sitions were largely heavy constructive work, in which warehousesand coal pockets and similar structures entered largely. In the nextfew years dwellings, municipal and business buildings formed a largeshare of the work. As an example of Mr. Kings free treatment ofFrench Renaissance the mercantile building No. 625 Broadway isprobably one of the best. It is a twelve-story store, loft and officebuilding, of skeleto
RM2CRDRWB–. The Street railway journal . A VIEW IN THE NINETY-SIXTH STREET POWER STATION, METROPOLITAN STRLET RAILWAY COMPANY STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVIIL No. 14. entire power station. In the Ninety-Sixth Street sta-tion there is space for eleven 3500-kw units, and the plansof the other called for sixteen units of the same size. Thesmall amount of space taken by the boiler rooms in l->othcases is due to placing the boilers in tiers. In the enginerooms the low figures on floor space are due mainly to theuse of large units, and to what extent this influences :he. ONE OF THE COAL POCKETS ABOVE TH
RM2CRA6JH–. Electric railway gazette . and dynamo room is 100 ft. square andthe boiler room is 60 ft. by 100 ft. The engine anddynamo room is to be covered with the BerlinIron Bridge Companys patent anti-condensationcorrugated iron. The coal pockets over the boilerroom will have a capacity of 3,000 tons of coal. RECORD OF STREET RAILWAY PATENTS. U. S. Patents Issued Jan. 22, 1895. 532,748. Bracket Clamp ; Augusta A. Ball, Jr.,echenectady, N. *., Assignor to the Thomson-HoustonElectric Company, Boston, Mass. Filed Oct, 18. 1894.Washers are adapted co partially conform to the shapeof the pole. Bolts embra
RM2CR8JGN–. American engineer and railroad journal . Half Cross-Section through Ash Pits ami Crane RunwaysFIG. 5—ASH PITS AND TRAVELLING CRANE.. FIG. 8—ASH BUCKET AND TRUCK. the coal pockets are supported by heavy concrete piers. Theapproach to the coal wharf is on 3.88 per cent, grade. Thetop of the wharf is 36 ft. above the ground level. The wharfhas a capacity for about 800 tons of coal: at the present timeabout 1,500 tons are being used daily. Part of the coal pocketsare equipped with a special design of Link Belt undercut gateand part with a pneumatically operated gate, designed by therailroad and
RM2CGXG7W–. Railway track and track work . pile. The coaling track is 830 ft. long, and the crane trestle730 ft. long. The storage pile holds 20,000 tons. Three sets of coal pockets(each with 18 pockets of 5 tons capacity) are placed over two engine tracks(16 ft. c. to c.) and the spouts serve a third track. Under the two engine 198 TRACK. tracks is a cinder pit 100 ft. long, which is also served by the crane. (Seealso Ash Pits.) The Philadelphia & Reading Ry. has a plant of 1,000 tons storage capacity,and a capacity of handling 120 tons per hour. The coal is dumped into trackhoppers and carried by a co
RM2CNJD2Y–. The Street railway journal . [EW OF INTERIOR TAKEN FROM THE ROOF yard is 319 ft. long by 117 ft. 6 in. wide, enclosed by re-taining walls entirely spanned by a Mead-Morrison gantrycrane, with a two-ton bucket having a capacity of over 50 tonsper hour. The approximate coal storage is 30,000 long tons. 784 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXL No. 19. The railroad companys coal cars are run in on a sidingand directly over reinforced concrete coal pockets, underwhich is an industrial railroad track on the same level asthe boiler room floor. On this industrial track run charg-ing cars, into which
RM2CH1E80–. Railway track and track work . ile. The coaling track is 830 ft. long, and the crane trestle730 ft. long. The storage pile holds 20,000 tons. Three sets of coal pockets(each with 18 pockets of 5 tons capacity) are placed over two engine tracks(10 ft. c. to c.) and the spouts serve a third track. Under the two engine 198 TRACK. tracks is a cinder pit 100 ft. long, which is also served by the crane. (Seealso Ash Pits.) The Philadelphia & Reading Ry. has a plant of 1,000 tons storage capacity,and a capacity of handling 120 tons per iiour. The coal is dumped into trackhoppers and carried by a co
RM2AXH8JE–Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers .. . Front View. FIGURE 125. 354 ENGINEERING by it passing to the boiler. The central portion of thegrate bars consists of shaking grates, while the sidebars are stationary and inclined. Fig. 126 is a sectional view and will serve to illustratethe construction of this furnace. The coal is fedthrough pockets on top on each side of the arch, thelarger furnaces having two pockets on each side andthe smaller sizes one. The doors in front are only. C/foss Seer;0//.FIGURE 126. opened for the purpose of clean
RM2AGE2TC–. Canadian transportation & distribution management. over the conventional design:—1.Elimination of liability of pushing loco-motives or a string of cars over the trestle.2. The building being under cover permitsof the unloading of cars in all sorts ofweather. 3. Man in charge can get anycars of coal that are on the track withoutawaiting the arrival of the switching loco-motive and crew, and at times thus avoidrunning out of coal in the pockets, withthe consequent delays in train movements.4. More years of service for the trestlebecause it is not necessary to run a loco-motive on it. 5. Saving
RM2AJ2E4A–Public works . EXCAVATING HARD CLAY IN HEADING WITH PNEUMATIC COAL PICKS WITHOUT THE USE OF EXPLOSIVES MILWAUKEE WATER WORKS TUNNEL, 448 PUBLIC WORKS ^0L. 52, No. 24 pits or trench work where thereis room enough fora man to work and even where there is not suffi-cient clearance for him to use an ordinary shovelor spade. In the Detroit district the soil tunnelled throughvaries greatly, from a very soft pumice-like cla to very hard clay. In one section medium hard clayis found full of sand pockets and ordinary hand exca-vation requires great care on account of the dangerof falling roof, and wo
RM2AWFAXT–New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . forty-five feet in area, have beenentirely rebuilt within a year. Mr. Holmes business is increasingand he employs fifteen men. Temple S. Corson carries on the coal business on Front street,at the foot of Middle. The coal yard, at the head of this wharf, isseventy-five by two hundred feet in area, and is provided with shedsand pockets. He employs about fifteen men and handles betweeneight thousand and fifteen thousand tons of coal annually.. INDUSTRIAL AND FINANCIAL. 287 The coal business of Hathaway Brothers (B
RM2AJ6P4C–New Bedford, Massachusetts : its history, industries, institutions, and attractions . forty-five feet in area, have beenentirely rebuilt within a year. Mr. Holmes business is increasingand he employs fifteen men. Temple S. Corson carries on the coal business on Front street,at the foot of Middle. The coal yard, at the head of this wharf, isseventy-five by two hundred feet in area, and is provided with shedsand pockets. He employs about fifteen men and handles betweeneight thousand and fifteen thousand tons of coal annually.. INDUSTRIAL AND FINANCIAL. 287 The coal business of Hathaway Brothers
RM2AX2W1J–New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . ^ occupied embraces over an acre and a half and thesheds, which are four hundred by forty-five feet in area, have beenentirelv rebuilt within a vear. Mr. Holmes business is increasinpcand he employs fifteen men. Temple S. Corson carries on the coal business on Front street,at the foot of Middle. The coal yard, at the head of this wharf, isseventy-five by two hundred feet in area, and is provided with shedsand pockets. He employs about fifteen men and handles betweeneight thousand and fifteen thousand tons of co
RM2CR7GE9–. American engineer and railroad journal . Tunnef to 334 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL.. ,■-■■<■ headers, which are located inside the huilding to insure immu-nity from freezing and flooding in cold weather. This modeof roof construction leaves little to be desired in the matter ofabsolute protection to the most delicate of machinery. Another remarkable feature of the building, indicatingthe substantial character of its construction, is thedesign of coal storage pockets and ash bin, which are of steeland concrete, built permanently into the upper portion of theboiler room, as shown
RM2CH0CMM–. The Street railway journal . on the level of the oper-ating floor, the operating gallery being immediately above themand the top gallery being used for offices and shops. COAL-HANDLING APPARATUS Coal delivered at the power stations on cars is dumped fromthe cars into pockets, from which it is delivered by suspendedflight scraper conveyors into the hoppers of crushers, where itis reduced to the proper size for handling with the mechanicalstokers. From the crushers it passes into a pocket conveyor,which lifts it to the top of the building and delivers it to longi-tudinal conveyors of the suspe
RM2CRD95P–. Railroad digest . procating loader make pos-sible the handling of bituminous coal of any size directly as itcomes from the mine. One of the features of the plant is the gate and chute fordelivering coal from the pocket to the tender. The pockets areprovid<-d with balanced gates which cannot clog and which en-able a man to regulate, perfectly, the flow of coal from thopocket to the balanced apron delivering it to the tender. Thesegates are of the Link-Belt Patent Under-cut type, the gate ris-ing from below instead of coming down upon the coal. A num-ber of these have been supplied to locom
RM2CRFF1K–. Electric railway review . Depot street Static , Cincinnati Traction Company—Cross Sectionof Coal-Handling Plant. bunkers and thence distributed as desired. This permitsthe railroad track to be used for storage purposes, therebeing room for several loaded cars at one time, and thespacing of the pockets in the side of the bunker permitsany or all of them to be unloaded at a point accessible tothe crane hoist with very little shifting of the cars andalso the coal to be elevated may be readily distributed toany point along the bunker. The floor and walls of the dumping pit and the floor ofthe bu
RM2CRCX0F–. The Street railway journal . n of the first floor, presented herewith, shows thearrangement of the boilers as it will be when the total ca-pacity of the station has been installed. At present, how-ever, the four units shown at the end of this floor and thecorresponding four units immediatelv above them will beomitted on the west end of the building. if desirable. All coal will be weighed before going to thecoal pockets. The ashes will be removed from the stationl)y cars operated by an electric locomotive. The engine room will contain at first but six 4000-hpgenerating units, placed in two ro
RM2CRX1FC–. American engineer and railroad journal . se chutes Isreduced to 2V4 minutes. Coal comes to the chutes in 60-toncars and is unloaded directly Into the storage pockets, each ofwhich takes the full load of a car. There is no manual hand-ling of the coal, and the total cost of the operation of the chutewith 10 pockets is the maintenance and the labor of two men. Thus far the two sizes of delivery pockets have met all re-quirements. The pneumatic cylinders for operating the gatesappear to be entirely satisfactory and the idea of the construc-tion promises to .provide a way to retain individual co
RM2CH0KYF–. The Street railway journal . ity of 1000 tons. The coal is unloaded from abarge or car in the ordinary way, and hoisted by a bucket to the topof the pocket by an ordinary hoisting engine. It is taken out of the These side pieces are rigidly attached together by a ten-inch tran-som bolster, which is fitted at its ends in strong and thoroughlybraced pockets formed on the side pieces which embrace this bolster,for sixteen inches at each end, and are thoroughly bolted or rivetedthereto. This construction of the truck frame accomplishes two resultsbesides giving a very easy riding passenger car.
RM2CRA62F–. Railway maintenance engineering, with notes on construction . e pockets; from the pockets it was run into the tenders ofthe locomotives as occasion required. These chutes (Fig. 143A)consisted of an elevated track about 19 or 20 ft. above the levelof the engine tracks with an inclined trestle approach of 5 per cent,up which the coal cars were pushed by a switch engine. Oneach side of this elevated track were located a row of pockets, 260 FUEL STATIONS 261 having inclined bottoms. The coal was stored in these pockets,each of which had a gate for delivering the coal to the enginetenders. The pr
RM2CR92F9–. The Street railway journal . 162 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 5. plans, Fig. 6. There are two of these coal tracks, one directlyabove the other. Provision is made for the use of bottom-dump cars, but incase these are not available a car dumper or unloading machinecan be installed. This is indicated by the dotted lines on the planFig. 6, which show the position when dumping the coal. Coalwhen dumped falls into hoppers which feed the coal crushers,that in turn discharge into the coal conveyor, which takes it tothe pockets above the boilers. These same cars, or cars on thesame track,
RM2CGYG1X–. Railway mechanical engineer . members, with every support board bolted inplace. On the inside of the car horizontal retaining stripsare attached to the sides to prevent the board from beingloosened from the frame by the pounding, which is often nec-essary to dislodge the coal in the car. The chute boards, be-side being supported at both ends and over the bolsters, areprovided with two intermediate supports attached to the sideplanking of the car by cast iron pockets of ample dimen-sions. The lower one is gained over the center sills, and theupper one is supported from the end sill by 6-in. b
RM2CGXMCR–. Railroad structures and estimates . e— moves together on the wharf. Fig. 73 illustrates a scheme for handling enormous quantitiesof coal designed by the Mead Morrison Company of Chicago. The coal is hoisted from the boats at the wharf by the ordi-nary tower cranes and hoppers into cable cars that circuit aroundthe wharf and up the center of the storage yard on an elevatedtrestle. On either side of the yard is a traveling bridge whichtransfers the cable cars at any point across the yard. By thisscheme all of the ground can be utilized for storage. The elevatedcoal pockets are arranged under t
RM2CR3DK6–. Railroad structures and estimates . Fig. 225. Four-pocket Plant, Single Track, Wood Structure. — Fig. 226illustrates a four-pocket, single-track McHenry coaling plantwith weighing device to each pocket. Capacity 140 tons. Costcomplete S8000 to SQoOO. In the two and four pocket plants the coal car is spotted overthe hopper and dumped, the coal running by gravity into theboot, where it is hoisted by endless chain and bucket method tothe pockets above. On the upper horizontal run the coal isscraped along the conveyor. Gates are provided to each pocket MECHANICAL PLANTS. 479 so that the coal may
RM2CH2HT8–. The science of railways . G STATION WHERE BUCKETS ARE USED. ing station, which is arranged to save handlingpart of the coal by shoveling it direct from thecar into the buckets which are placed on a caron the track D, the buckets being hoisted throughthe opening E on to the platform C. The trackA is used for the car when the buckets are loadedfrom the coal stored in the shed. Another styleused more extensively on lines having a largetraffic is an elevated coal shed with pockets con-taining enough coal to coal up a tender; thesestations can be arranged to unload the cars bydumping from the sid
RM2CRAPFT–. American engineer and railroad journal . 300 TON COALING STATION ERECTED BY FAIRBANKS, MORSE fit CO., ATAUGUSTA, KAN. THIS STATION IS TYPICAL OF THE LARGE NUMBERERECTED BY THIS COMPANY FOR THE SANTA FE AND IS PROVIDED WITHlO-TON AUXILIARY SCALE POCKETS, WHICH PERMIT THE ACCtn!ATEWEIGHING OF THE COAL PUT ON EACH LOCOMOTIVE TENDER. THISSTATION COALS FOUR TR.CKS AND OTHERS OF THE SAME TYPE WITH-OUT THE BRIDGE COAL TWO TRACKS. COALING STATION ERECTED AT BECKER, N. M., BY THE ROBERTS &SCHAEFER CO. THIS PLANT IS TYPICAL OF FOUR PLANTS CONSTRUCT-ED ON THE EASTERN RAILWAY OF MEXICO AND USES THE HOL
RM2CH2EDJ–. American engineer and railroad journal . wn in one ofthe illustrations, the roundhouse and facilities for turning en-gines naturally takes precedence, and since, from the topographyof the country, the shops had to be placed between the main line Coal Chute and Cinder Pit. On the approach tracks to the roundhouse is located a coalchute providing ten 5-ton pockets filled by gravity from a stor-age bunker of 175 tons capacity. The loaded coal cars are drawnup the 19 per cent, incline by a motor driven hoist and dumpeddirectly into the storage pockets. This is a wooden structureand includes the
RM2CRWX63–. American engineer and railroad journal . ss than one minute. We handle the coal fromsteel-hopper self-dumping cars to the locomotive tenders fromthese coaling trestles at a cost ranging between Vz cent and 1cent per ton, depending on the effect that weather conditions. operates the gate, controlling the flow from the large storage,from the measuring pocket platform; the coal can then bedumped from the measuring pockets to the tenders either fromthe measuring pocket platform, or from the engine cab. Theamount of coal received and disbursed on each coaling trestleis balanced each day, and what
RM2CGXMMM–. Railroad structures and estimates . Fig. 71. Coaling Crane. To avoid delays to locomotives elevated pockets are some-times built and the coal hoisted by a long boom crane. With 152 RAILROAD STRUCTURES AND ESTIMATES. proper structural facilities the crane can also handle cinders,and in some cases the sand, and is available at odd times forswitching cars. The cost of the locomotive crane set up complete depends onits capacity and may vary from $5000 to §9500 or more. Thecost of storage pit and elevated pockets when desired is also avery variable quantity. In addition a certain amount of specia
RM2CR653M–. Building and repairing railways . G STATION WHERE BUCKETS ARE USED. ing station, which is arranged to save handlingpart of the coal by shoveling it direct from thecar into the buckets which are placed on a caron the track D, the buckets being hoisted throughthe opening E on to the platform C. The trackA is used for the car when the buckets are loadedfrom the coal stored in the shed, Another styleused more extensively on lines having a largetraffic is an elevated coal shed with pockets con-taining enough coal to coal up a tender; thesestations can be arranged to unload the cars bydumping from
RM2CDD51G–. Material handling cyclopedia; a reference book covering definitions, descriptions, illustrations and methods of use of material handling machines employed in industry . Other Link-Belt Coal and Ashes Handling Equipment iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirirriiiiiJiiiiii Peck Carrier Discharger in Operation. Link-Belt Engineers havespecialized in the solution ofcoal and ashes handling prob-lems in power plants. Ourequipment for power plants in-cludes a complete line of acces-sories ; belt conveyors, bucket carriers, feeders, crushers,,track hoppers, coal bins, ashes pockets, stoker spouts,,bin and hop
RM2CRX055–. American engineer and railroad journal . STORAGE TRESTLES AT COALING STATIONS.-—BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. The Baltimore & Ohio chutes at Bruns-wick, Md., at Keyser and Fairmont, W. Va.,and at Newcastle Junction, Pa., are inter-esting in this connection. They provide de-livery pockets in pairs, each pair containing4 and 2 tons of coal, which are made to meas-ure the coal as accurately as it can be meas-ured by volume. These pockets project overthe track as indicated in the accompanyingengravings, which show clearly the details ofconstruction. Two sizes are provided, in order to adjustthe amo
RM2CR72MX–. Railroad structures and estimates . SIDE ELEVATION ^-^^ Fig. 224. Coaling Station with Locomotive Hoist. 478 MECHANICAL PLANTS. Mechanical Plants. — The ordinary mechanical plants, con-sisting of elevated pockets fed by endless chain, belt, or buckets,are arranged to hold from 30 to 800 tons or more, the amountof coal elevated per day depending upon the capacity required,the number of tracks to be served, and the storage necessary foremergencies. The cost of a mechanical type of coaling plant varies accord-ing to capacity and style of plant adopted, and may range from$20 to $75 per ton capac
RM2CH0293–. Railway mechanical engineer . andriveted to the front end of the center sill is a steel castingarranged to support the front water legs. This casting alsocontains pockets to receive the drawbar and safety bars. . gal of water and 20 tons of coal. The design has been foundto be very successful. The tender is carried on two 75-ton si.-vvheel non-pedestaltrucks, the design of which is a departure from the Lewis six-wheel freight car truck in use on the Norfolk & Western.Helical springs are used in the Lewis truck and the open-ings in the side frames for receiving the springs and bolsterarms a
RM2CGWAYH–. The Street railway journal . pparatus shown consists of a traveling bin on a trackparallel to the boiler room wall. At frequent intervals along thiswall cast-iron pockets with sliding gates are placed ready to de-liver the coal from the bunkers directly into the bottom of anelevator leg, the buckel system of which is operated by an electricmotor, allowing the bin to be filled from any point of the coalstorage. The coal hopper can be moved along by this same 332 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIX. No. u. motor until it is brought directly before the furnace to be suppliedwith coal, which is de
RM2CR3EAJ–. Railroad structures and estimates . Fig. 222.. Fig. 223. the cars on the trestle by ordinary locomotives is considereddangerous and expensive. This plant consists of a wood trestle 5 per cent grade, withtwo 100-ton pockets and sand bin located between tracks. The approximate cost complete is from $15,000 to $18,000. The coal chute is of timber construction throughout with atrack reaching the upper deck by means of a framed approachtrestle. In this case the locomotive pushes the coal cars up theincline where they are spotted over the coal chutes. 476 LOCOMOTIVE HOIST. Coaling Station with Loc
RM2CGXN1G–. Railroad structures and estimates . Fig. 70. Belt Conveyor Type of Coaling Plant. Locomotive Crane. (Fig. 71.)—With the locomotive cranethe coal is taken direct from flat-bottom cars by grab bucketsand hoisted into the tender. When self-clearing cars are used apit is constructed and the coal dumped, from which it is handledby the crane.. Fig. 71. Coaling Crane. To avoid delays to locomotives elevated pockets are some-times built and the coal hoisted by a long boom crane. With 152 RAILROAD STRUCTURES AND ESTIMATES. proper structural facilities the crane can also handle cinders,and in some cas
RM2CGXNCK–. Railroad structures and estimates . ipping arrangements, the buckets being designed to hold threetons and are self-clearing. They are operated by hoist with cable drive and 25 horsepowermotor controlled by the operator in the engine room. At a speedof 60 feet per minute 100 tons can be delivered to the elevatedpocket per hour. The approximate cost of the plant complete averages from$12,000 to $15,000. Belt Conveyor. (Fig. 70.) — This plant may consist of one ora series of pockets with an inclined belt on a 25-degree slope, fedfrom a track hopper beneath the coal car track, the coal beingdeli
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