. The street railway review . and only I to 3 miles wide, formingin itself an attractive spot for excursionists in a country wherethere are 10 months of siunnicr. Tlio power for the road will be arrangement of the power house and of the car barn which will beadjacent to it- The over all dimensions of the power house are90x118 ft. and it is divided into three compartments, viz: boilerroom, 90x50 ft.; engine room, 90x52 ft.; transformer room, 12x60ft. The latter is in the nature of an extension to the main build-ing so that the transformers may be entirely isolated. The build-ing will be of bric
. The street railway review . and only I to 3 miles wide, formingin itself an attractive spot for excursionists in a country wherethere are 10 months of siunnicr. Tlio power for the road will be arrangement of the power house and of the car barn which will beadjacent to it- The over all dimensions of the power house are90x118 ft. and it is divided into three compartments, viz: boilerroom, 90x50 ft.; engine room, 90x52 ft.; transformer room, 12x60ft. The latter is in the nature of an extension to the main build-ing so that the transformers may be entirely isolated. The build-ing will be of brick with steel roof trusses and a composition sub-station at Cockerell Summit will contain two converters and that near Ft. Worth two 400-kw. plant will have a capacity for eventually furnishing power tooperate the Ft. Worth city lines as well as the interurban. One ofeach of the sub-station units is sufficient to operate the intcru^anon an hourly schedule, leaving the other units in r»«T—-—■l^-j—-— PLANS AND ELEVATIONS OF POWER HOUSE. generated as alternating current in the power houbc, and raised bymeans of step up transformers to volts, and transmitted atthis pressure to the two sub-stations, one of which is located nearF. Worth, and the other at Cockerell Summit, about six miles fromDallas. The power house equipment will consist of three 300-h. water-tube boilers, arranged for burning or oil. twoC. & G. Cooper Co. corliss cross-compound condensing engines of900 h. p. each, running at 100 r. p. m. The electric equipment willbe of the Westinghouse type and consist of two 600 kw. three-phase alternators, and two 250 kw. rotary converters in the powerhouse, and the necessary transformers to raise the current to thehigher voltage for transmission to the illlI^lralions herewith show the plan, elevation and There will be a traveling crane in the engine room for handlingthe heavy
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