Handbook of mechanical and electrical cost data, giving shipping weights, capacities, outputs, and net prices of machines and apparatus, and detailed costs of installation, maintenance, depreciation and operation, together with many principles and data relating to engineering economics (1918)
Gillette, Halbert Powers, 1869-, Dana, Richard Turner, 1876-1928, joint author · New York, McGraw-Hill · leaf 1409
ofa gravity railway about 500 ft. long. The coal is stored in pilesalong the path of the railway from which it is reclaimed as re-quired for the power house. Such an installation has a handlingcapacity of about 50 tons per hr. and if operated a reasonable num-ber of days per year will unload barges… … Elevation ,jdeceiving Hoppei. /AufomaficRailway MasfandOaff--yRig n Plan A \ CoatBarge Fig. 41. Mast-and-gaff rig and automatic railway. of six months, equivalent to 160 ten-hour shifts, there will behandled 80,000 tons. The unloading equipment cost $6,000. Fixedcharges on this at 10% are $600,…