. Electric railway journal . er, the years work ofpreparation of a project will proceed more rapidly if thereis fair assurance of ability to find the construction capitalon completion of the get-ready work. 248 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXIV. No. 7. POWER IMPROVEMENTS OF THE CONEY ISLAND &BROOKLYN RAILROAD COMPANY During the past two years the power system of theConey Island & Brooklyn Railroad Company has under-gone a complete transformation. Prior to July 1, 1908,the company had in operation three steam generating sta-tions, with a combined capacity of about 6500 kw, supply-ing curren
. Electric railway journal . er, the years work ofpreparation of a project will proceed more rapidly if thereis fair assurance of ability to find the construction capitalon completion of the get-ready work. 248 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXIV. No. 7. POWER IMPROVEMENTS OF THE CONEY ISLAND &BROOKLYN RAILROAD COMPANY During the past two years the power system of theConey Island & Brooklyn Railroad Company has under-gone a complete transformation. Prior to July 1, 1908,the company had in operation three steam generating sta-tions, with a combined capacity of about 6500 kw, supply-ing current for the operation of approximately 160 main plant was located where Ninth Street crossesthe Gowanus Canal, was condensing and secured its coalby water. The other two plants, on DeKalb Avenue andConey Island Avenue, were non-condensing and requiredthe haulage of coal and ashes. All of these plants con-tained Westinghouse Kodak engines and Climax verticalboilers, and the machinery in every case was from 4 to. Electric lty. Ju«m«l. Coney Island & Brooklyn Power Improvements—Map ofLines Showing Location of Power Stationand Substations 13 years old. The main station contained, in addition tothe five Kodak units, two 800-kw compound Corliss en-gine-driven units. The new power system of the company was put in oper-ation Nov. 1, 1908, and since that time has consisted of acentral power house at Ninth Street and Gowanus Canal,containing two steam turbine units with a total rated ca-pacity of 7000 kw, supplying 11,ooo-volt alternating currentto rotary converters contained in substations, one of whichis located at the power house, one on Sanford Street nearDeKalb Avenue, and one on Coney Island Avenue at KingsHighway, through high-tension underground distributionsystem. These two turbine units, with six water-tubeboilers, are to-day doing the work which was formerly re-quired of 19 engine units and 20 boilers. It is instructive to note the economic result of this change. Fo
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