. The Street railway journal . wo accompanying illustrations. The first shows the type oftwo engines being built by the Westinghouse Machine Companyfor the Union Traction Company of Kansas, Independence, Kan.,one being of 500-brake hp and one of 1000-brake hp. The secondphotograph shows one of two twin-tandem furnace gas-blowingengines now under construction for the Edgar Thomson plantof the Carnegie Steel Company. For electric railway work, nochange would be made except to omit the blowing tubs. Aselectric units, these engines would have a capacity of about 3500-brake horsepower each. The lar
. The Street railway journal . wo accompanying illustrations. The first shows the type oftwo engines being built by the Westinghouse Machine Companyfor the Union Traction Company of Kansas, Independence, Kan.,one being of 500-brake hp and one of 1000-brake hp. The secondphotograph shows one of two twin-tandem furnace gas-blowingengines now under construction for the Edgar Thomson plantof the Carnegie Steel Company. For electric railway work, nochange would be made except to omit the blowing tubs. Aselectric units, these engines would have a capacity of about 3500-brake horsepower each. The large size gas engine has come to fill such an importantplace in Europe, and has there proven itself to be so reliable andserviceable, that there is no question about its being adopted inthis country in the near future, in a form suited to Americanoperating conditions. It is hoped that these general observations will be foundof interest to intending users of gas power in large quan-tities. Typ/cal fbwzf?5t#tiojv LovD &i//?ycs. /Z 6> 2 >/I. * 1 TO 6.—TYPICAL POWER-STATION LOAD CURVES ered steam turbines, in their special application to railway important characteristics for a prime mover were men-tioned, viz., close speed regulation, considerable overload capacityand high economy over normal ranges of load. Although thesequalifications are, indeed, most desirable, entire success may onlybe attained through the harmonious working of the entire plant,whether steam or gas; in fact, in the case of the latter successfuloperation may be attributed in almost equal proportions to thegas and power generating sections of the plant. Unfortunately,it is true that the faults of the one may all too readily be chargedto the other; yet a careful study of practical operation shows thefutility of such distribution of responsibility. A perspective view of railway service, as distinguished fromelectric lighting service, may be had by examining the daily loadcurves from typical power
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