The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-11-18
ENGINES WILL
COAL QUICKLY
New Plant Of ". &L.E is Almost
Completed will Save Time
and Labor.
NOVEL STYLE OF CONSTRUCTION

Work on the new coaling plant in
the w. & L. E. yards is being pushed
rapidly toward completion. With good
weather the constructors think that
thew will be able to have it completed
by the first of next year The
switches for the new tracks necessl-
tated by the plant are being put ID
now and work is also being done on
an ash nit The new coaling plant Is
both a labor and time saver. NOW the
engines are coaled by hand. They arc
run on a. track slightly depressed ana
the coal is shoveled into the tender
from cars standing on an elevated
track. The ashes are dumped out
while the engine is being coaled and
after they are raked out of the box
must be piled alongside the track ana
then loaded into cars to be hauieu
away. NJ,
The new coaling plant consists OF
a pit "a feet long and Il feet VIDE,
built to a height of about rect along
the sides and IL feet at each end. rms
wall is of concrete and the moor OF
the pit is made of the same material
1S inches thick. Steel girders Will be
laid from the top of one end of the
wall to the other side. On these
girders a track will be laid, elevated
by this means about IL feet from the
bottom of the pit. On this track dump
cars filled with coal will be run and
the coal dumped into the pit. When
empty the cars will be run down a
graded track at the opposite end OF the
building.
Over the pit a wooden building will
be constructed. In this will be an
endless chain with buckets. BY this
means the coal will be drawn to the
top of the building and dumped
through a chute into the tender of the
engine standing on the track. A con-
crete wall sloping from 4 to feet
is being built for distance of about
q hundred feet from the coal dock to
hold the bed of the track on which
the dump cars will be run.
The ash pit is about feet deep and
when completed will have a concrete
floor. At the top of the ash pit a
girder will be strung and with one
rail on the wall and another on the
grider a track will cross the pit This
will make an elevated track and on
this the engines will run. The ashes
will be taken out by a man employed
for that purpose. He will be able to
stand upright under the engine while
taking out the ashes In the way
they are now taken out the man is
compelled to crawl under the engine
to get the ash box.
track will be run on a grade from
distance from the pit and when
It reaches that place will be depressed
enough that it will lay on the bottom
of 1t. When the pit is filled with
ashes, which will not be until after
about ten or twelve engines have been
emptied, the ashes will be loaded into
the cars run on the depressed track
The top OF these cars will be on a
level with the bottom of the pit and
the ashes can be shoveled into them
with ease. 1t will only require one
mans work while at present several
men are employed on the work II
will also save much time as two en-.
gines can be emptied at one time.
The coaling plant Is the first one o.
Its kind that the w. & L. e. construct
ed. At Ironville, o., the road is build
ing similar plant