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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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isincss. Like many anothertraction system, that of the Rhode Island Co., controlling and op-erating nearly the whole electric railway mileage within the limitsof that small state, has been forced to greatly augment and par-tially modify its power generating and distributing system. The old Kddy St. power house long smce reached the limits ofgrowth within the ground space available, and of e(iuipment within The main structure is 200 ft. long and 144 ft. wide. A longi-tudinal dividing wall separates the boiler from the engine room,giving the former an interior breadth of about 60 ft. and the lattera width of about 76 ft.; the inside length is 197^2 ft. in both cases.The building is of brick, concrete and steel, tire proof to the small-est detail. Wired glass is generally used in the windows, and allsash, as also the doors and interior trim, arc sheathed with cop-per. This copper sheathing is painted in some parts of the sta-tion ; in more conspicuous portions it is planished and gives a
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LONGITUDINAL SECTION THROUGH Hdll.KR IK)rSi:. SHOWING COAI^ .\ND ASH HANDLING EQUIPMENT the structure itself. The generating units here are of only mod-erate size, the generators driven by horizontal engines, principallyof the improved Greene type of cross compounds. Finding it prac-tically impossible to acquire adjoining property at reasonable cost,a large tract was purchased, adjacent to the site of the old sta-tion, but separated from it by a street and the vacant space whichwas held too high to he considered within reach. The new siteextends up from the river front a distance sufficient to allow forincrease of the new station to more than twice its present capacity.At the river end of this property has been erected the new Man-chester St. power house, whose present appearance, constructionand equipment are quite fully illustrated by the several engravings. most attractive finish to the building. AH foundations are of con-crete resting upon grillages of piling. Roofs and floors are

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