. The Street railway journal . FIG. 10,—VIEW 01- TRUCK from usual practice. Each generator is coupled direct toa hydraulic turbine at one end of ils shaft and to a re-ciprocating steam engine at the other. The method bywhich the generator is driven is determined by the watersupply a\ailahle. io disconnect llie generator from thehydraulic lurl)ine the 1)olts .ire removed from the flangecoupling. 368 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [\oL. XXXL No. lo. The Twelfth Street power house is built on the banksof the James River just below the cataracts at Richmond,a dam having been built a little higher up the
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 10,—VIEW 01- TRUCK from usual practice. Each generator is coupled direct toa hydraulic turbine at one end of ils shaft and to a re-ciprocating steam engine at the other. The method bywhich the generator is driven is determined by the watersupply a\ailahle. io disconnect llie generator from thehydraulic lurl)ine the 1)olts .ire removed from the flangecoupling. 368 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [\oL. XXXL No. lo. The Twelfth Street power house is built on the banksof the James River just below the cataracts at Richmond,a dam having been built a little higher up the river to pro-vide the water storage. The capacity of the James Riveris a very variable quantity, and it was this factor that engines each of looo-hp capacity. Each engine has cylin-ders 20 in. and 40 in. x 42 in. stroke, and is direct coupledto a General Electric MP-750-kw d. c. generator. In ad-dition to these there are four other generating sets. It willbe noticed in Fig. 11 that economy in space is effected by. H„U^-,f Journal FIG. 11.—TR.\NSVERSE SECTION OF POWER HOUSE
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