. The Street railway journal . October 13, 1906.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 649 At the Indianapolis station there are being added two 1 500-kw. Westinghouse turbo-generator units and four 500-kwWestinghouse oil-insulated, self-cooling transformers, one ofwhich is held in reserve. The turbo-generators deliver currentat 390 volts, which is stepped-up to 33,000 volts for the over-head distribution. One 1 500-kw rotary is also being installedto feed about six miles of the interurban line now building westof Indianapolis. i he boiler room is being enlarged by the addi-tion of 2400-hp Babcock & Wilcox
. The Street railway journal . October 13, 1906.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 649 At the Indianapolis station there are being added two 1 500-kw. Westinghouse turbo-generator units and four 500-kwWestinghouse oil-insulated, self-cooling transformers, one ofwhich is held in reserve. The turbo-generators deliver currentat 390 volts, which is stepped-up to 33,000 volts for the over-head distribution. One 1 500-kw rotary is also being installedto feed about six miles of the interurban line now building westof Indianapolis. i he boiler room is being enlarged by the addi-tion of 2400-hp Babcock & Wilcox boilers with superheaters,the boilers being in 400-hp units. Baragawanth condensersare being installed for the new units, and the condensing waterwill be supplied by Boyts-Porter pumps. All of the boilers areprovided with Roney stokers, and the new units have settingsfaced with white enameled brick. As the water in this station is bad, especially at certain sea-sons of the year, a water-purifying plant has recently been i
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