. Electric railway journal . d,Railway Engineering Department. Service Quickly Restored by RailwayAfter Fire The illustration below shows effects of the fire of , that destroyed some of the buildings and rolling stockand damaged the power plant of the Eastern Pennsyl-vania Railways at Palo Alto, and of which mention wasmade in the issue of this paper for Feb. 10, page of the power generating equipment escapedserious injury so that partial service was maintained,and with diligent efforts of the officials and employees,and help from neighboring companies, full service wassoon res
. Electric railway journal . d,Railway Engineering Department. Service Quickly Restored by RailwayAfter Fire The illustration below shows effects of the fire of , that destroyed some of the buildings and rolling stockand damaged the power plant of the Eastern Pennsyl-vania Railways at Palo Alto, and of which mention wasmade in the issue of this paper for Feb. 10, page of the power generating equipment escapedserious injury so that partial service was maintained,and with diligent efforts of the officials and employees,and help from neighboring companies, full service wassoon restored. The storehouse with all of its contents was destroyedand the building which was formerly a paint shop isnow used for storing new supplies. The carhouse wasalso destroyed and contained twenty-one passenger andservice cars at the time of the fire. A temporary repairshop has been erected beside the fireproof blacksmithshop, which was only slightly damaged. About 1100ft. of track with a cinder covering in a new section of. INTERIOR OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA RAILWAYS POWER HOUSE,SHOWING DAMAGE BY FIRE February 24, 1917] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 351 the carhouse was saved, and over this portion a tem-porary shelter was built after the fire for making carrepairs. The power plant consists of an old and a new por-tion, adjoining with no partition wall. This buildingremains intact, the new part having a tile roof, anddamage to equipment was done by water and by fallingembers from the roof of the old section. The two turbo-generators of 1000-kw. and 3250-kw. capacity were dis-abled by broken gages, oil pipes, etc., and damaged bywater, but have been repaired and put back in motor generator sets, a rotary converter, arc light-ing circuit, and a transformer which supplied power forplant lighting and for the carhouse were only tem:porarily disabled, but a direct-current switchboard andtwo old-style engines and generators used to supplypower for the railway peak loads were de
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