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Identifier: streetrailwayjo181901newy (find matches)
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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, if notmore, of the total investment. The cost of a large polyphase generating station of thetype erected by the Metropolitan Company, at present fig-ures, is about $90 per kilowatt for the power plant alone.This figure would include real estate at New York prices. The ground space required by a power house per kilo- in kilowatts of total output, is much more dependent onthe latter consideration than one who has never madecomparative estimates would imagine. For example,the space required per kilowatt of capacity in the Ninety-Sixth Street power house of this company is 1.24 sq. ft.for boiler and engine rooms together. Of this, .68 sq. ft.IS in the engine room and .56 sq. ft. in the boiler room. Inthe 216th Street or Kingsbridge station, which was origin-ally designed for the Third Avenue Railroad, and is nowbeing built for our company to one-half the capacity calledfor by the original plans, the boiler room takes .58 sq. ft.per kilowatt and the engine room .58, or i.oi total for the
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A VIEW IN THE NINETY-SIXTH STREET POWER STATION, METROPOLITAN STRLET RAILWAY COMPANY STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVIIL No. 14. entire power station. In the Ninety-Sixth Street sta-tion there is space for eleven 3500-kw units, and the plansof the other called for sixteen units of the same size. Thesmall amount of space taken by the boiler rooms in l->othcases is due to placing the boilers in tiers. In the enginerooms the low figures on floor space are due mainly to theuse of large units, and to what extent this influences :he

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  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:432
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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