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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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ad. Since that time work has beenprogressing rapidly both on the stations and on the remainderof the electrification, and during the latter part of October, orearly in November, the company expects to make the antici-pated change in its motive power from steam to electricity inthe initial electric zone south of High Bridge and Wakefield. readiness, so that electric service by the time specified isassured. The Port Morris and Yonkers stations will be almost dupli-cates, and although they embody no radical departure fromrecognized practice, each is an excellent example of modernengineering. The station sites, besides being near the loadcenters of the electric traction system, are at once adjacentto navigable waters and existing railroad tracks, so that anunlimited supply of circulating water is available, andshipments of coal may be received by rail or by water. Pro-vision is made at each station for an ultimate capacity of 30,-000 kw, which is sufficient to operate a train service much
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GENERATING ROOM IN THE PORT MORRIS POWER HOUSE OF THE NEW YORK CENTRAL & HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD The work incident to this change has progressed to such apoint that were it not for new signals and the abnormalpassenger traffic in the early autumn, the change, so far asmotive power is concerned, could be made early in October. As stated in the previous article, the electricity to operatethe cars and locomotives will be generated in two power sta-tions; one at Yonkers on the Hudson River, and the other atPort Morris on Long Island Sound. These two stations havecapacity enough and to spare for the ultimate electric zone,which will extend to Peekskill on the Hudson division, and toNorth White Plains on the Harlem division. The Port Mor-ris station is now in operation, but the Yonkers station willnot be completed for some months. The Port Morris station,however, has ample capacity to operate the initial electriczone, and the four sub-stations for this zone are practically in greater than

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