. The Street railway journal . EXTERIOR OF POWER HOUSE SWITCHBOARD IN MAIN POWER STATION engines are now run non-condensing, but the plant is sodesigned that it can readily be put on a condensing basis ifit is thought desirable. In the engine room are four direct-connected of these are horizontal cross-compound engines, 23ins. and 40 ins. x 36 ins., built by the International PowerCompany, of Providence, R. I., each direct connected to a600-kw, 2-phase, 60-cycle generator. One is a horizontalcross-compound engine, 22 ins. and 36 ins. x 26 ins., builtby the Harrisburg Foundry & Machin
. The Street railway journal . EXTERIOR OF POWER HOUSE SWITCHBOARD IN MAIN POWER STATION engines are now run non-condensing, but the plant is sodesigned that it can readily be put on a condensing basis ifit is thought desirable. In the engine room are four direct-connected of these are horizontal cross-compound engines, 23ins. and 40 ins. x 36 ins., built by the International PowerCompany, of Providence, R. I., each direct connected to a600-kw, 2-phase, 60-cycle generator. One is a horizontalcross-compound engine, 22 ins. and 36 ins. x 26 ins., builtby the Harrisburg Foundry & Machine Company, anddirect connected to a 400-kw, 2-phase, 60-cycle fourth is a vertical Williams cross-compound engine,17 ins. and 30 ins. x 20 ins., built by William Tod & Com-pany, of Youngstown, Ohio, direct connected to a 350-kw,2-phase, 60-cycle generator. The generators are of the revolving field type, 2200 volts,2-phase machines, and were built by the WestinghouseElectric & Manufacturing Company, of
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