. Electric railway review . Columbus Railway & Light Company—Gay Street PowerStation. General Electric generators for the railway load. Thesemachines generate at 575 to 600 volts and are direct connectedto Green-Wheelock cross-compound engines. Two 500-kilowatt Curtis turbo-alternators for the lightingload; a 1,500-kilowatt Curtis turbo-alternator is now being. Columbus Railway & Light Company—High Street OfficeBuilding. installed. The machines generate 60-cycle, three-phase cur-rent at volts. One 500-kilowatt and one 300-kilowatt motor-generatorunits for adjusting the output between rai
. Electric railway review . Columbus Railway & Light Company—Gay Street PowerStation. General Electric generators for the railway load. Thesemachines generate at 575 to 600 volts and are direct connectedto Green-Wheelock cross-compound engines. Two 500-kilowatt Curtis turbo-alternators for the lightingload; a 1,500-kilowatt Curtis turbo-alternator is now being. Columbus Railway & Light Company—High Street OfficeBuilding. installed. The machines generate 60-cycle, three-phase cur-rent at volts. One 500-kilowatt and one 300-kilowatt motor-generatorunits for adjusting the output between railways and lightingloads and for effecting transformations in case of accidentsto the generating machinery. One booster which is not now in use. The boilers at this station are ten 350-horsepower Bab-cock & Wilcox, furnishing steam at 175 pounds; two are gasfired, two are hand-fired with coal and ten have Green chaingrates. Six boilers are operated under natural draft and eightby induced draft, using Sturtevant fans. The equipment ofthe station includes Wheeler condensers, Edwards air pumpsand Green fuel economizers. Station No. 2 is at Gay and Third streets, two squaresnortheast of the companys office building. Here are: One 1,OOO-kilowatt, 250-volt, two 480-kilowatt, 250-volt andtwo 200-kilowatt, 125-volt generators direct connected to verti-
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