. Electric railway journal . s. WATERBURY STEAM PLANT At Waterbury a steam station containing two 1500-kwWestinghouse-Parsons, one 3000-kw General Electric-Curtisand one 4000-kw Allis-Chalmers-Parsons turbo-alternator,generating three-phase, sixty-cycle current at 2300 volts, isable to carry the load of the entire system, but normallytakes only what the Bulls Bridge plant does not. The pres-ent turbine room has space for another unit when station is of brick, on concrete foundations, and itsconstruction was notable chiefly for its speed, ground hav-ing been broken May 26, 1910, and
. Electric railway journal . s. WATERBURY STEAM PLANT At Waterbury a steam station containing two 1500-kwWestinghouse-Parsons, one 3000-kw General Electric-Curtisand one 4000-kw Allis-Chalmers-Parsons turbo-alternator,generating three-phase, sixty-cycle current at 2300 volts, isable to carry the load of the entire system, but normallytakes only what the Bulls Bridge plant does not. The pres-ent turbine room has space for another unit when station is of brick, on concrete foundations, and itsconstruction was notable chiefly for its speed, ground hav-ing been broken May 26, 1910, and the first unit startedDec. 18 of the same year. It is located on the NaugatuckRiver, which furnishes the condensing water, a low weirforming a suitable pool. The weir proper is of concrete,with a cut-off curtain of steel piling about 30 ft. deep. On the easterly side of the station, about 150 ft. from theriver, which is on the westerly side, is a well 12 ft. in insidediameter, with concrete walls 1 ft. thick, the lower 8 Connecticut Power—Single Pole with Top Cross-Arm onBulls Bridge 33,000-Volt Line, and 90-Ft. SteelTower at Waterville on New Britain Line being pierced by a series of some 270 holes 3 in. in diam-eter. The lining has a steel cutting edge at the bottom. Itwas cast above the surface in sections 8 ft. long and wassunk by undermining the edge, which is at present 38 the surface. Coal, in original cars, is delivered by the steam railroadto a private siding and is hauled by an electric motor to a sunken hopper, from which it goes, through crushersand screens, to a supply bin and then by traveling weighhoppers to the Jones underfeed stokers. The eight 500-hp Bigelow-1 lornsbv boilers are in groupsof two on opposite sides of a firing alley and are equippedwith Foster superheaters, while Sturtevant economizersbehind the batteries utilize the last available heat of tin- Connecticut Power—Map of Territory Tied in from BullsBridge to Hartford via Waterbur
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