. Electric railway journal . subsequent enlargement, but atthat time the need for its extension so soon was not antici-pated. Additional generating capacity has been made necessary by ADDITIONS TO BUILDING The original station building consisted of a boiler room 72ft. wide x 81 ft. long and an engine-room 62 ft. widex 81 ft. long. These subdivisions were separated by abrick firewall. All of the side walls of the building exceptthat on the north side, are of concrete, steel and brick. Thenorth wall was constructed temporarily of corrugated ironcarried on a wooden framework, and this has been ca
. Electric railway journal . subsequent enlargement, but atthat time the need for its extension so soon was not antici-pated. Additional generating capacity has been made necessary by ADDITIONS TO BUILDING The original station building consisted of a boiler room 72ft. wide x 81 ft. long and an engine-room 62 ft. widex 81 ft. long. These subdivisions were separated by abrick firewall. All of the side walls of the building exceptthat on the north side, are of concrete, steel and brick. Thenorth wall was constructed temporarily of corrugated ironcarried on a wooden framework, and this has been carried outto gain the additional floor space. The new equipment re-quired an extension of 17 ft. on the turbine room and 85 . the boiler room. These extensions are built of yellowbrick and have a concrete-steel roof, and conform to the fire-proof construction of the remainder of the building. -Becauseof the height of the 3000-kw turbine, which is mounted on acondenser base, it became necessary to raise the level of the. Exterior View of Remodeled Terre Haute Power Station of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company the increase in traffic on the 88-mile interurban system whichradiates in four directions from Terre Haute, and by a con-siderable increase in the lighting and power loads at TerreHaute. The local street car service, with 27 miles of track,and the residence and commercial lighting of Terre Hauteand three smaller towns form an important part of the loadon the Terre Haute station. The street lighting load includes606 constant-current arc lamps. Current at 22,000 volts is fed from this station to six inter-urban railway substations. The transmission line possessesmany interesting features, including a river span 900 fl. longsupported on steel towers, all of which were described in thearticle already mentioned roof over the new turbine room extension above that of theroof which covers the 1500-kw and 500-kw units first old turbines are
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