Identifier: electricrailway381911newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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apparatus and 800 kw of lightand power generating apparatus. The Cranford sta-tion contains 3150 kw of railway units and 2850 kwof lighting units. The equipment of the Metuchenstation contains 1500 kw of railway machines and1500 kw of lighting machines. The Perth Amboystation, which is new, contains at the present time two5000-kw turbo-generators, either of which may beused for the railway load or for the lighting load.The Milltown station contains 1200 kw of railwaygenerating equipment. The stations at Elizabeth andMilltown will be shut down within a few years andthe new station at Perth Amboy will become the mainstation for this territory. The Perth Amboy station is located on the RaritanRiver at tidewater and is close to the coal shippingdocks of the Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley and Phil-adelphia & Reading Railroads, so that a continuousand cheap supply of condensing water and fuel isavailable. The station is a brick and steel framebuilding 112 ft. deep and 181 ft. wide. It will
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October 7, 1911. ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL.

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