. The Street railway journal . EXTERIOR VIEW OF THE MAIN POWER PLANT AND OFFICEBUILDING AT MONROE company, here being located the office of Mr. Tarkington, thesuperintendent, the auditors and the despatchers offices, be-sides, also, a locker room and recreation and bath rooms for thecar service employees. The power house is a large, convenient structure, 150 ft. x109 ft., and is located about 250 ft. from the river, whence con-densing water is had. It has a 165-ft. self-supporting steel liss engines of the heavy-duty type, built by Hooven, Owens &Rentschler Company, Hamilton, Ohio, and each is
. The Street railway journal . EXTERIOR VIEW OF THE MAIN POWER PLANT AND OFFICEBUILDING AT MONROE company, here being located the office of Mr. Tarkington, thesuperintendent, the auditors and the despatchers offices, be-sides, also, a locker room and recreation and bath rooms for thecar service employees. The power house is a large, convenient structure, 150 ft. x109 ft., and is located about 250 ft. from the river, whence con-densing water is had. It has a 165-ft. self-supporting steel liss engines of the heavy-duty type, built by Hooven, Owens &Rentschler Company, Hamilton, Ohio, and each is direct con-nected to a 400-kw three-phase 25-cycle Westinghouse genera-tor. The engines are rated at 600 ihp, at one-quarter cut-offand a speed of 100 r. p. m. The generators deliver at 380 volts,which passes directly through the switchboard to the rotaryconverters at the station or to the step-up transformers. There. VIEW IN ENGINE ROOM OF THE ENLARGED TOWER PLANT, SHOWING ARRANGEMENT OF GENERATING APPARATUS stack, with draft controlled by Spencer draft regulators, and ismounted upon a massive foundation. The original boilers are400-hp Babcock & Wilcox water-tube boilers with extensionfurnaces, but the new boiler is a Cahall horizontal water-tubeboiler, of similar size, with traveling chain grate, all of whichwas furnished by the Aultman & Taylor Machinery Company,Mansfield, Ohio. The extension furnaces under the original Bab-cock & Wilcox boilers are also now being replaced by standard are two 300-kw rotaries located in the power plant, this rotaryequipment being in duplicate of that at the new exciters include a steam and a motor-driven unit, the latterbeing used in preference to the steam-driven unit. The switchboard equipment is located at the north end of thebuilding beneath the gallery which carries the step-up trans-formers. It contains thirteen panels at presen
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