. The Street railway journal . pal steam plant is at Kittery Point, whichserved for years as the power supply for the Portsmouth,Kittery & York Railway, now constituting the Western divi-sion. This is a direct-current station and contains the fol-lowing: Two Ball & Wood compound engines, belted to225-kw and 110-kw G. E. generators respectively and oneErie City engine running a second 225-kw generator. Theother steam plant operated directly by the company is of300-kw capacity and located at Kennebunkport. It is usedonly as an auxiliary. From a 1500-kw Curtis turbine steam plant at Dover, con-tr
. The Street railway journal . pal steam plant is at Kittery Point, whichserved for years as the power supply for the Portsmouth,Kittery & York Railway, now constituting the Western divi-sion. This is a direct-current station and contains the fol-lowing: Two Ball & Wood compound engines, belted to225-kw and 110-kw G. E. generators respectively and oneErie City engine running a second 225-kw generator. Theother steam plant operated directly by the company is of300-kw capacity and located at Kennebunkport. It is usedonly as an auxiliary. From a 1500-kw Curtis turbine steam plant at Dover, con-trolled by the railway interests alternating current at 3400volts is transmitted to the South Berwick sub-station andat 10,000 volts to York Corner. The company also operates two hydro-electric plants,using water from the Mousam and Alfred rivers. The lowerof these plants was purchased some time ago from theAlfred Light & Power Company and is operated on a This station contains Smith turbines connected to. THE AUXILIARY STEAM PLANT AT KENNEBUNK, MAINE three 500-kw Westinghouse a. c. generators, one of whichis an a. c. d. c. generator. The supply of power from this source has been recentlyincreased by the construction of a new dam at Estes Pond,850 ft. long and 40 ft. high. The new station is a brickbuilding with a frame addition for the penstocks. Theequipment consists of two 500-hp Victor turbines directconnected to two 300-kw, three-phase, 60-cycle, 2200-voltgenerators. Three water-cooled transformers are installedto step-up the generator potential to 10,000 volts for trans- STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. December 14, 1907.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 1133 mission. The circuits from this station and from the otherwater-power plant are carried as a triple system to WestKennebunk. At this point one of the lines is carried to thesub-station at Town House, while the remaining two arecarried across country to a portable sub-station kept nearElms and to the sub-station at Ogunquit.
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