Edgerton Compressor Station 1962
All Photographs Copyright © 2006 by Robert E. PenceReturn to urbanindiana.com Index Edgerton Compressor Station, operated by Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Company, is located east of Fort Wayne
near the Ohio state line. These photographs were shot hand-held in 1962 with a Zeiss Ikon Contaflex 35mm
camera on Kodak Tri-X film using available light at 1200 ASA and developed in Acufine. The Cooper-Bessemer engines
have 24 x 36 inch cylinders and run at 125 rpm. If my memory is correct, their rated horspower is 1500 and they were
being run at an average load of 1350 horsepower. I learned of these engines from John Harper, who farmed and ran a sawmill on US 24 east of New Haven. I had just
returned from a trip to Pennsylvania with Bruce Maxwell, where I had seen the old Snow engines at Van. I was
describing the engines to John, and he said there was a building full of those not far away. He took me out to his front
yard and pointed to the light atop the station's communications tower. Compressor to provide starting air
Ingersoll Rand engine powering electrical generator
Cooper-Bessemer Engines
I can't remember any of the details on this inline engine
I think this was the builder plate on a new V-8 engine. As I recall, thecrew at the station didn't have a very high opinion of it.
