Philadelphia's Fairmount Park Trolley: 1896 - 1946
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The coal-fired electrical power plant, which still stands today, was designed by Axel H. Engstom and Edwin B. Ives.
Six boilers powered three stationary steam engines built by Robert Wetherill & Company
which in turn drove three General Electric 500 kilowatt generators.
Source: Street Railway Journal, August 1897, Vol XIII, No 8, pg 463
Today this building, located off Montgomery Drive east of the Schuylkill Expressway, houses park maintenance shops.
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