. The Street railway journal . WAITING STATION AT A COUNTRY CROSSROAD serves. There is in the plant no waste space, but at the same timecrowding has been avoided. There is nothing about the equipmentwhich may be termed a frill, and yet everything which wouldpay an interest on the investment, either by reason of more con-venient operation or of fuel economy, has been included in theplans. It will be interesting, therefore, to examine the plant witha view to learning the various considerations which entered intothe selection and arrangement of its equipment. The general arrangement is shown in s
. The Street railway journal . WAITING STATION AT A COUNTRY CROSSROAD serves. There is in the plant no waste space, but at the same timecrowding has been avoided. There is nothing about the equipmentwhich may be termed a frill, and yet everything which wouldpay an interest on the investment, either by reason of more con-venient operation or of fuel economy, has been included in theplans. It will be interesting, therefore, to examine the plant witha view to learning the various considerations which entered intothe selection and arrangement of its equipment. The general arrangement is shown in section. The plant atpresent contains but two generating units. To furnish power forthe operation of the road up to its full capacity with frequent andheavily loaded cars will eventually require double the presentequipment, so that the necessity of providing for extension, whichis so often lost sight of in designing power stations, became inthis case one of the first considerations. The engine and boilerrooms, were, therefore,
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