. The Street railway journal . 75-kw lighting generators, and two 400-hpengines, direct connected to 250-kw excitergenerators. The main engines are being con-structed and erected by the Allis-ChalmersCompany, of Milwaukee; the steam turbinesby the Westinghouse Machine Company, ofPittsburg, and the exciter engines by West-inghouse, Church. Kerr & Company, of New-York. The contract for the main engines wasawarded Sept. 1, 1901, prior to which date thequestion of employing steam turbines had re-ceived careful consideration. An investigationwas made of the status of the steam turbine in bine equip
. The Street railway journal . 75-kw lighting generators, and two 400-hpengines, direct connected to 250-kw excitergenerators. The main engines are being con-structed and erected by the Allis-ChalmersCompany, of Milwaukee; the steam turbinesby the Westinghouse Machine Company, ofPittsburg, and the exciter engines by West-inghouse, Church. Kerr & Company, of New-York. The contract for the main engines wasawarded Sept. 1, 1901, prior to which date thequestion of employing steam turbines had re-ceived careful consideration. An investigationwas made of the status of the steam turbine in bine equipment for the plant in question requiring successfuloperation on the opening of the road beyond all question ofdoubt. The recent improvements, however, which have taken placein steam turbine design have indicated the possible desirabilityof turbines for the future increase to the generating equipment,and arrangements have accordingly been made in the westerly108-ft. extension of the structure to provide for the installation. SIDE ELEVATION OF ONE OF THE MAIN GENERATING UNITS, TO SHOW ARRANGEMENT AND DETAILS OF CYLINDERS this and foreign countries, and it was found that aside from theconstruction of certain 3500-kw Parsons turbine-generatorspending at the works of Brown, Boveri & Company, at Baden,Switzerland, nothing was then being done in the way of anactual construction of a turbo-generator of the capacity neededfor the Rapid Transit Subway power house, nor were the re-sults obtained from the use of smaller turbines considered tobe of a character which would justify the purchase of a tur- of steam turbines, if desired, of 8000-kw or 9000-kw generatingcapacity. MAIN ENGINES The main engines are similar in type to those installed bythe Allis-Chalmers Company in Seventy-Fourth Street powerhouse of the Manhattan division of the Interborough RapidTransit Company, in that each consists of two component com-pound engines, both connected to a common shaft, with the 6i6 STREET RAILWAY
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