COAL PIERS, NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINAL. LAMBERTS POINT, NORFOLK, VA. (Made especially for this report by the U. S. Army Air Service.)

means of an electrically operated endless bucket chain conveyor and thence to vessels by gravity, at the rate of 50 tons per hour; and the Hampton Roads Coal & Bunkering Corporation in Berkley, which operates an electrically operated coal tipple.

The two cargo coal and bunkering piers at Newport News, Va., are owned and operated by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., handling West Virginia coal. Pier No. 9, with a berthing depth of 35 feet, and capable of berthing and loading 4 large or 6 small vessels at the same time, has a maximum loading capacity of 6,000 tons per hour. Road cars are dumped by a twin car dumper into 110-ton electrically operated conveyor cars which, after being weighed, are lifted to the top of the pier trestle and then moved to the berth serving the vessel. The coal is dumped into pier pockets and thence it moves through slide boxes and chutes to the ship's hold. Pier No. 15, with its 37 feet of berthing depth, can accommodate any type of vessel entering Hampton Roads. This facility, completed in 1931, is a low-level type, constructed entirely of concrete. It is 1,000 feet long, 72 feet wide, and has a delivery capacity of 50 cars per hour. This capacity can be doubled by increasing the width of the pier and adding a second dumper. The coal is transferred from road cars directly into a system of electrically controlled gravity flow telescopic chutes, thence into the vessel's hold. The flow of coal through the chute is automatically controlled to minimize breakage. Trimming can be done. mechanically and the coal sprinkled, if desired.

Further information relative to the above facilities will be found in the following tabulation:

Norfolk & Western Railway
Coal Pier No. 4
No. 17 (Norfolk)

At Lambert Point...

Norfolk & Western Railway
Co.

None.

7,000-car storage yard..
Virginia and West Virginia,
Pocahontas, bituminous.
By gravity to vessels along-
side pier.

2 100-ton and 1 120-ton road

car dumpers transfer coal
to 100-ton conveyor cars
which serve Piers 4, 2, and
3. At Pier No. 4 conveyor
cars are elevated to top of
trestle, emptied into 64
pockets holding 125 tons
each; thence coal is con-
veyed byadjustablechutes
to hold of vessel. Maxi-
mum loading capacity,
6,000 tons.

Depth alongside, 35 feet.
Used principally for load-
ing cargo coal and bunker-
ing at same time.