Metropolitan Subway and Elevated Systems: Bulletin 49 — John Shaqi
Metropolitan Subway and Elevated Systems: Bulletin 49General Electric Company
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Metropolitan Subway and Elevated Systems: Bulletin 49
General Electric Company
Railroads, Elevated -- United States; Subways -- United States
The number of passengers carried by the Interboro Lines during the
fiscal year 1921 was 1,013,678,831. This figure represents 2,773,479
passengers per mile of track. In the main 4-track subway 10-car express
trains are operated during rush hour periods on minimum headways of 108
seconds.
_Power Supply_
The power generating equipment of the Interborough includes briefly the
following:
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59th St. Power Station │ Total Kw.
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Turbo-Generators 3-30,000 kw.│ 90,000
Compound Units 5-15,000 kw.│ 75,000
Engine-driven Units 4- 7,500 kw.│ 30,000
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Total │195,000 Kw.
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74th St. Power Station │ Total Kw.
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Turbo-Generator 1-60,000 kw.│ 60,000
Turbo-Generators 3-30,000 kw.│ 90,000
Turbo-Generator 1- 7,500 kw.│ 7,500
Engine-driven 3- 7,500 kw.│ 22,500
├───────────
Total │180,000 Kw.
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Power is generated 11,000 volts three-phase 25 cycles and transmitted
principally underground at 11,000 and 19,000 volts. The total energy
generated in the two main sections at 59th St. and 74th St. for the year
1921 was 830,000,000 kw-hrs.
_Substations_
For supplying 625-volt direct current to the rapid transit lines, there
are a total of 25 substations containing 129 synchronous converters
aggregating 283,000 kw.
_Distribution_
Propulsion current is delivered to trains through an unprotected
over-running third rail weighing, in the old subway 75 lbs. per yard, on
the elevated 100 lbs., and in the new subway 150 lbs. per yard.
_Rolling Stock_
The motor car equipment on the Manhattan Elevated lines includes over
800 cars which have been in operation since 1902-4 with GE-66 motors and
Type M control. These cars after 20 years of hard service are referred
to as the “back-bone of the system.” Frequent additions have been made
to elevated and subway equipment so that the total rolling stock at the
end of the fiscal year 1921 was as follows:
INTERBOROUGH RAPID TRANSIT ROLLING STOCK EQUIPMENT
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