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Photographer: Tom Bosse
Taken: October 14, 2016
Caption: Power House
Additional Description: The Power House in Scottsburg was a substantial red brick and steel building with a dividing wall separating the engine room from the boiler compartment. Its overall length measured 108 feet 6 inches and its extreme breadth was 111 feet 3 inches. The power house had two steel stacks, each 125 feet high. The mechanical equipment consisted of two Allis-Chalmers single-cylinder Curtiss engines, each rated at 750 H.P., and four Babcock and Wilcox water-tube boilers, each rated at 300 H.P., and designed for a steam pressure of 160 pounds per square inch. An excellent water supply was obtained by the construction of an artificial lake (Lake Iola). The chief items of the electrical equiopment were four General Electric MP 8-300-120-600 volt compound wound generators. Two of these units were mounted on the extended shaft of each engine and had their armatures in series to yield 1,200 volts. The provisions made for handling coal were of a very simple nature. A pit was constructed immediately outside of the boiler house which ran for the entire length of the building. Arched openings connected this pit with the boiler room. In this manner the coal was taken directly from the pit to the boilers. The pit was filled with coal from above, rails being laid along its length and supported by cross "I" beams only, so that the hopper car could discharge directly into the pit. This existing shelter house is constructed precisely over the site of the described pit.
Submitted: November 17, 2016, by Tom Bosse of Jefferson City, Tennessee.
Database Locator Identification Number: p369582
File Size: 9.814 Megabytes

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