600 Horsepower Reciprocating Natural Gas Engine in Action Snow Worthington NW PA 462

It came from the natural gas pump station 6 miles east of Sheffield PA on Hwy 6 (Royersford). I walked there one day in my late 20s from my grandmothers - just to walk in the forest next to the road that I was always curious about when a kid. There were 2 elder engineers there with nothing to do, so they gave me a grand tour in the immaculate place that had several engines for staging: from 5 PSI to 15 psi, another for 15-45, another for 45-90 and the last 90-120 PSI. (This I say from a memory of something 35 years ago - the PSI ranges may be a little different, but that kind of general idea.) The station stored 5 million Cu Ft in a pervious strata that was surrounded by impervious rock (all natural storage). It rec'd from a 30 inch pipeline from Louisiana via Kentucky. It distributed throughout northwest Pennsylvania including industry in Erie & Warren (their largest customers). The museum said they got it in pieces approx. 6 years before 2014. Such an amazing coincidence that I saw it before and after! The other engines in Royersford were more modern like Ingersoll-Rand upright straight.
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