. Electric railway journal . Turbine Room of Delaware Avenue Station of PhiladelphiaRapid Transit Company the same length and approximately the same width as theengine room, and the boilers were grouped on one or bothsides of a firing alley running the length of the of from one to four boilers were sufficient to sup-ply steam to each of the engines. This typical arrangementis well shown in the plans of the Lincoln, Charleston, Com-merce Street and Harvard stations presented departure from this arrangement in a modern turbinestation is shown in the plan of the Ge
. Electric railway journal . Turbine Room of Delaware Avenue Station of PhiladelphiaRapid Transit Company the same length and approximately the same width as theengine room, and the boilers were grouped on one or bothsides of a firing alley running the length of the of from one to four boilers were sufficient to sup-ply steam to each of the engines. This typical arrangementis well shown in the plans of the Lincoln, Charleston, Com-merce Street and Harvard stations presented departure from this arrangement in a modern turbinestation is shown in the plan of the Georgetown station. Engine Room of Twin City Rapid Transit CompanysStation of the Seattle Electric Company. Here two Curtis tur-bines, one of 8000-kw and the other of 3000-kw capacityoccupy a space 77 ft. x 62 ft., including the switchboardgallery, which is 17 ft. wide, and the boiler room covers anarea 73 ft. 6 in. x 151 ft. The areas per kilowatt of stationcapacity are respectively sq. ft. for the engine roomand sq. ft. for the boiler room. This unit figure forthe engine room is approximately the same as for the March 27, 1909.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 539 Bennings plant, which is sq. ft. The CommerceStreet station in Milwaukee, which was originally designedfor eight reciprocating engine units, is a very compactstation of its kind, but the unit engine room area, based onthe original installation, is sq. ft. The two turbo-units later installed under the switchboard gallery reducethis figure to , as shown in the tables. It will be seenin the plan of the Georgetown station that t
Size: 1811px × 1380px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublishernewyorkmcgrawhillp
