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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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onverters. On the other side of each of the machines will bebuilt a concrete pier 13 ft. long by i8 in. thick. As the building isin a closely built business portion of the city it is entirely enclosedby other structures and will be lighted by a skylight from aboveand a row of windows on the street side. This sub-station will tions. The portions of the new- building north of the north endwall of the present station will be built first and will Ijc placed inoperating condition, then the present station will be torn down andthe remaining portion of the new building erected in the place oftlie old station. The new power house will occupy a strip of land 200 ft. wide and435 ft. long. This property is bounded on the west side by BeachSt. Along this street is a steam railroad siding over which coalwill be brought to a bunker and conveying apparatus whence auto-matic machinery will carry the coal across the street to the storagebunkers in the boiler room of the new station. There also will be
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NEW DELAWARE AVE. TOWER STATION OF PHILADELPHIA RAPID TRAXSl i l. feed the most important trolley sections located in the businesscenter of Philadelphia, and the subway east of Broad St. There are six storage batteries in use with a total capacity of5,200 ampere-hours. .-V view of the front of a typical one of thesebattery stations is shown. This station is located at 3643 German-town Ave. three additional tracks on the west side of Beach St for storingcoal in steam railroad cars. The east side of the new building will front on Delaware Ave.,which is close to the shore line of the Delaware River. Oppositethe north end of the building the company will construct a pierS2 ft. wide extending into the river. This pier will be built directly

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