. Electric traction for railway trains; a book for students, electrical and mechanical engineers, superintendents of motive power and others .. . Fig. 182.—Milwaukee Northern Railway Power Plant. Two kilowatt gas engines and 25-cycle, 3-phase, 405-volt, 107 alternators, built by the Allis-Chalmers Fig. 18:-5.—Great Northern Railway—Cascade Tunnel Power Plant Equipment. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. The water power plant used to propel trains thru the Cascade Tun-nel is located 30 miles east of the tunnel. The plant was designed byMr. J. T. Fanning of Minneapolis. The equipment
. Electric traction for railway trains; a book for students, electrical and mechanical engineers, superintendents of motive power and others .. . Fig. 182.—Milwaukee Northern Railway Power Plant. Two kilowatt gas engines and 25-cycle, 3-phase, 405-volt, 107 alternators, built by the Allis-Chalmers Fig. 18:-5.—Great Northern Railway—Cascade Tunnel Power Plant Equipment. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. The water power plant used to propel trains thru the Cascade Tun-nel is located 30 miles east of the tunnel. The plant was designed byMr. J. T. Fanning of Minneapolis. The equipment consists of three 4000-h. p. horizontal Smith turbines 492 ELECTRIC TRACTION FOR RAILWAY TRAINS each direct-connected to a 2500 kv-a., 6600-volt, 25-cycle, 375 r. p. The units have a large overload capacitj^ for train ser-vice. Four transformers raise the voltage from 6600 to 33,000 transformer is rated 844 kilowatt but will operate at 100 percent, overload for 1 hour with a reasonable rise *n temperature. The head of water is 185 feet. To equalize the pressure due to fric-tion and inertia of the water in an stave pipe line, 11,000 feetlong, between the dam and the power plant, a 360,000-gallon steel tankis connected to the foot of the pipe line. The water is lowered 12 fee
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