Text Appearing Before Image: EXTERIOR VIEW OF THE POWER PLANT DURING CONSTRUCTION, SHOWING STEEL WORK ture, while the boiler house is located on the Fifty-EighthStreet, or southerly side. The designers were enabled to em-ploy a contour of roof and wall section for the northerly sidethat was identical with the roof and wall contour of the south-erly side, so that the building, when viewed from either end,presents a symmetrical appearance, with both sides of thebuilding alike in form and design. The operating room sectionis practically symmetrical with respect to its center; it consistsof a central area, with a truss roof over same, and galleriesalong both sides. The galleries along the northerly side areprimarily for the electrical apparatus, while those along thesoutherly side are given up chiefly to the steam pipe equip-ment. The boiler room section is also practically symmetricalwith respect to its center. A sectional scheme of the power house arrangement was de- Text Appearing After Image: October 8, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. termined upon, by which the structure was originally to consistof five generating sections, each similar to the others in all itsmechanical details, but at a later date a sixth section was added,with a space remaining on the westerly end of the block for aseventh section. Each section embraces one chimney, alongwith the following generating equipment: twelve boilers, hav-ing each 6000 sq. ft. of heating surface; two engines, eachdirect connected to a 5000-kw alternator; two condensingequipments; two boiler feed pumps; two smoke flue systems;along with this is included the detail apparatus necessary tomake each section complete in itself, the only variation beingthe turbine plant afterward referred to. In addition to thespace occupied by the before-mentioned sections, an area wasset aside, at the Eleventh Avenue end of the structure, for thepassage of the railway spur from the New York Central tracks.The total length of the original five-sectio
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