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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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ent of this water power cannot but have a moststimulating effect on the industries of this region. THE UTICA & MOHAWK VALLEY RAILWAY The Utica & Mohawk Valley Railway Company, which, al-though not connected directly with the systems reaching Sara-toga, may be classified very properly as belonging to that re-gion, presents some unique features in its power equipmentthat are worthy of note from an engineering point of view. The system comprises 87.8 miles of track, 94 motor cars, and61 other cars, besides the power and sub-station equipmentwhich is here described. The company will own and operatepractically the entire street railway systems of Utica, Rome,Little Falls, Herkimer, Mohawk, Ilion, Frankfort, Clinton,New Hartford, Deerfield, Oriskany and Whitestown. Nu-merous extensions are now in progress. Power is obtained from the Utica Gas & Electric Company,and is delivered in Utica over that companys 20,000-volt, 60-cycle, three-phase transmission line. Part of the power is
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FRANKFORT SUB-STATION utilized in Utica through rotary converters, and the balance istransmitted to the Frankfort and Little Falls sub-stations,eleven and twenty-one miles to the east, respectively, and tothe Oriskany sub-stations, twelve miles to the west. The Utica sub-station was designed originally for three 500-kw rotary converters, and the other sub-stations for three300-kw outfits, but as the first instalment comprised only eight300-kw machines, these were distributed among the stationsthen ready: Four in Utica, two in Oriskany and two in Frank-fort. The Little Falls station was not in operation at that time,but has recently been equipped with two 300-kw converters,one being new and the other one taken from Utica, where itwas replaced by a new 500-kw machine. All of the 300-kwrotaries in the Utica sub-station will eventually be displacedby 500-kw units, and will be removed to the other sub-stations. Lhe Utica sub-station is equipped with three Westinghouse550-kw oil-insulated,

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