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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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Septem pee, 1899.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 583
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low the level of the station. At this depth piles weredriven, spaced 2 ft. 3 ins. and 2 ft. 6 ins. apart; 1345 pilesaltogether were driven in this spaee, after which the pitwas filled with a mixture of one part cement, three partssand and five parts broken stone, making a block of con-crete 85 ft. square and 20 ft. in depth. The chimney, whichis built upon this block, contains 3,600,000 bricks andweighs 8540 tons. The accompanying map shows the location of the sub-stations to be used in connection with the main station atNinety-sixth Street. These stations run in sizes from3000 to 6000 kw., as follows: 146th Street, 4000 kw.; Nine-ty-sixth Street, 3000 kw.; Fiftieth Street, 6000 kw.; Twen-ty-fifth Street, 5000 kw.; Front Street, 3000 kw., and Hous-ton Street, 5000 kw. The main generating station, asstated, has a capacity of 45,000 kw. Two more stationswill probably be located in the lower end of the city alittle later, possibly 011 new plots to be purchased. Storage batteries will be

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