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Identifier: streetrailwayrev14amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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e Metropolitan StreetRailway Company of Kansas City, Mo. BT HOWARD PRESCOTT QUICK. DESIGNING AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER. WITH FORD, BACDN & DAVIS. Power Situation in Kansas City.The principal and most expensive piece of work which formspart of the undertaking of Ford, Bacon & Davis, engineers, toreconstruct the Kansas City street railway system, is the new Mis-souri River Power Station, a plant of about 40,000 kw. ultimatecapacity. The present installation is to be 10,500 kw., of which aportion has been in operation since February 6th of this year. railway apparatus to care for the districts of which they form thecenters. The construction of these sub-stations is now in progress,and some are equipped and operating with either permanent appa-ratus or temporary expedients. There is also much temporaryauxiliary power generation and transmission carried on at the oldand new power, lighting and cable stations to care for the in-creasing electric load, but as the new station is nearing
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INTKHKIU < IK .MIHSIMKI 11IVK)( IllWIlIt STATDN-KIH.S-r INIM- I.N ljri;ilAIl.\. This i» designed to provide current for both lighting and railwayMrvice for the whole city for many years, but is principally forrailway service, as in conjunction with it is to be used the newliRhling plant on the Kaw River, erected in 1902-3, by Ford, Bacon& Davin, having a capacity of 4,500 kw. and an installation ofi/xn kw. These two plants and four or five sub-stations arc con-nected by an underground conduit high tension system shown inthe diagram Fig. i. The voltage of these lines of transmission is6/jOO, and this is carried entirely undergroinid in lead cables laid injVi-in. tile ducts cmljeddcd in concrete. The luk-ttations will each be arranged with both lighting and completion, Ihcy will soon be put out of use and midsummer orearly fall will sec the new suh-stalion system in conipk-tc workingorder as now conteiuplalcd. The two new generating stations will contiiuic tu lie suppUiiRntc-ilb

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