. The Street railway journal . FIG. 1.—VIEW OF POWER STATION SITE BEFORE WORKWAS BEGUN under the supervision of Ford, Bacon & Davis. This station isknown as the Missouri River power house of that account of its size and also because of the proposed use ofsteam turbines, its design presents many features which makeit of interest. As far as the mere matter of size goes, severalof the mammoth stations in New York city equal or exceed this,but the introduction of steam turbines involves new problemsin design, which have only recently been grappled with. Next. FIG. 3.—POWER-HOUSE SITE ON
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 1.—VIEW OF POWER STATION SITE BEFORE WORKWAS BEGUN under the supervision of Ford, Bacon & Davis. This station isknown as the Missouri River power house of that account of its size and also because of the proposed use ofsteam turbines, its design presents many features which makeit of interest. As far as the mere matter of size goes, severalof the mammoth stations in New York city equal or exceed this,but the introduction of steam turbines involves new problemsin design, which have only recently been grappled with. Next. FIG. 3.—POWER-HOUSE SITE ON NOV. 15, 1902 after the Fisk Street station of the Commonwealth ElectricCompany, of Chicago, which was the first station to be designedfor the use of 5000-kw steam turbine units, this Kansas Citypower house is the farthest along in design and construction ofany of the large new generating stations in the country inwhich the use of Curtis steam turbines is contemplated. The station is laid out for an ultimate nominal capacity of40,500 kw. Owing to the fact that three reciprocating-engineunits were already ordered at the time the design of thisstation was begun, and because of the necessity of obtainingpower from this station before the steam turbine makers couldinsure delivery, anout 10,000-kw capacity of this station willbe in the form of engine-driven units. The balance of the capacity, it is expected, will be in the shape of 5000-kw tur-bines. It might be noted incidentally that the engine roomspace required by the three 3500-kw engine units to be first
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