. The Street railway journal . PARABIAGO SUB-STATION AND CROSSING OF HIGH-TENSION LINES WITH TRACK The generating station of the plant is situated at Torna-vento on the Ticino River. The present steam generating station consists of threehigh-tension, three-phase, 25 cycle alternators supplied bythe General Electric Company, with a normal rating of750 kw, but capable of working up for a short time to 1400kw. Each alternator is coupled directly to a horizontal. GENERAL VIEW OF POWER STATION AT TORNAVENTO December 6, 1902.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 897 tandem-compound steam engine. These steam eng
. The Street railway journal . PARABIAGO SUB-STATION AND CROSSING OF HIGH-TENSION LINES WITH TRACK The generating station of the plant is situated at Torna-vento on the Ticino River. The present steam generating station consists of threehigh-tension, three-phase, 25 cycle alternators supplied bythe General Electric Company, with a normal rating of750 kw, but capable of working up for a short time to 1400kw. Each alternator is coupled directly to a horizontal. GENERAL VIEW OF POWER STATION AT TORNAVENTO December 6, 1902.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 897 tandem-compound steam engine. These steam engines, aswell as the boiler plant, were supplied by the well-knownfirm of Franco Tosi, of Legnano. Although coupled tosingle-crank engines and driving rotaries, no trouble has that poppet valves are used, which, though popular inEurope, are not in common use in this country for enginesof the size of those in this plant. The three horizontal tandem compound condensing en-
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