The Allis Chalmers expansion engine located in the former site of the People's Water Company of Phillipsburg New Jersey, Presently holds the title of the largest operable stationary steam engine in North America.The engine also became the first American triple Expansion waterworks engine to be operated in preservation when it was demonstrated on steam in 2018. Standing at almost six stories tall, it along with the rest of the facility was constructed in 1913 to supply six million gallons a day of water to the city of Phillipsburg, today it remains as a remarkably complete example of a medium sized early twentieth century waterworks.
Presenter/guide Philip Beard is one of two Project leads of the Phillipsburg Triple restoration project, under the Friends of the New Jersey Transit heritage center. He is a recent graduate of Pratt Institute where he spent time learning from Conrad Milster in the Historic Pratt power plant.
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