. Electric railway journal . Company, and, with these contracts as the prin-cipal basis of financing, there was undertaken the con-struction of a modern steam plant large enough to carrythe load and supply all energy required over and abovewhat the hydraulic plant would develop. The new plantwas planned to be a 60-cycle station, and therefore thework included also the placing of new 60-cycle genera-tors in the water-power station. Principal interest in the new station centers aboutthe complete layout of the station on the unit plan togive better insurance against complete shut-down, toallow fo
. Electric railway journal . Company, and, with these contracts as the prin-cipal basis of financing, there was undertaken the con-struction of a modern steam plant large enough to carrythe load and supply all energy required over and abovewhat the hydraulic plant would develop. The new plantwas planned to be a 60-cycle station, and therefore thework included also the placing of new 60-cycle genera-tors in the water-power station. Principal interest in the new station centers aboutthe complete layout of the station on the unit plan togive better insurance against complete shut-down, toallow for future extensions, and to simplify the further carrying out of the unit plan appears in thecomplete isolation of exciter units, the installation ofthe potential and current transformers in the fireproofcompartments for each pole of the oil switches; andthe location of the two concrete stacks on the steelstructure directly over the boilers. This has resulted ina generally compact layout of the station and equipment. FREMONT POWER STATION—TURBINES FOR MAIN FLOOR 1344 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLVIII, No. 27
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