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 |  |  | A Cleveland Streetcar Substation
< on 7/20/2012 4:57 PM >
|  | | | A Cleveland Streetcar Substation
The Cleveland, Ohio Cedar Avenue substation was constructed in 1917, and was the first automatic substation completed for the Cleveland Railway Company. It was across the street from the Cedar Avenue power plant, which was then at the time the largest non-condensing direct-current plant in the United States, and was operated non-condensing because the exhaust steam was sold to a salt company adjacent at a price that made it difficult for the central station companies in Cleveland to compete with the Cleveland Railway's power house on a per-kilowatt-hour output.
From "Designing and Operating the Substation for Maximum Efficiency." Electric Railway Journal 51.15 (Apr. 13, 1918): 700.
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It was later decided that the cost to upgrade the Cedar Avenue power plant was prohibitively expensive. The production value at the Cedar Avenue facility was $1,265,565, and this, deducting the salvage of machinery and equipment estimated at $115,565, could be paid off at a rate of $20,000 per month. The cost of outsourcing electric production to the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company was less than 6 mills per kilowatt. The cost of energy production in the Cedar Avenue plant was about one cent per kilowatt.
The new Cedar Avenue substation featured eight rotaries, each 1,500-kw in capacity with 60-cycle 514-RPM Westinghouse machines. With the installation, the railway company boasted 20 rotaries of 1,500-kilowatt capacity each and two 1,000-kilowatt-capacity, with controlling apparatus sourced from General Electric. The transformers were air-cooled Westinghouse 550-kilovolt-ampere., 11,000/410-volt single-phase units installed without shells.
Below is a cross-section of the plant and a layout scheme. From "Designing and Operating the Substation for Maximum Efficiency." Electric Railway Journal 51.15 (Apr. 13, 1918): 701-702.
Direct-current ends of rotary converters and the front of a main control switchboard. From "Designing and Operating the Substation for Maximum Efficiency." Electric Railway Journal 51.15 (Apr. 13, 1918): 703.
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Alternating-current ends of the rotary converters and rows of control apparatus. From "Designing and Operating the Substation for Maximum Efficiency." Electric Railway Journal 51.15 (Apr. 13, 1918): 702.
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The decision to use smaller capacity rotaries instead of four 3,000-kilowatt units came down to redundancy. If a serious overload was achieved and one of the units was subsequently disabled, an ever greater strain may have been imposed on the remaining units, A load of only 1,500-kilowatt, however, spread over seven units would overload each unit just slightly. There was determined to be little efficiency loss.
The exterior was finished with press brick in the front, with cut stone trim, with an interior and side walls of shale brick laid in cement motar. The interior also featured a tile finish. The roof was concrete supported on steel girders. After the exterior was finished, the interior electrical equipment, switchboards and so forth were installed in just five weeks.
On June 15, 1948, the Cedar Avenue streetcar line was replaced with a trackless trolley, which was then replaced with buses on April 12, 1963.
Below is a photograph of "special switchboards, at right an ammeter board for use in measuring distance tables and at left a house-service board." From "Designing and Operating the Substation for Maximum Efficiency." Electric Railway Journal 51.15 (Apr. 13, 1918): 704.
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Mounting of feeder cables in substation basement and subway. From "Designing and Operating the Substation for Maximum Efficiency." Electric Railway Journal 51.15 (Apr. 13, 1918): 703.
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Busbar and disconnect switch compartments with lamp indicators. From "Designing and Operating the Substation for Maximum Efficiency." Electric Railway Journal 51.15 (Apr. 13, 1918): 701.
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Rear of alternating-current section of main control board. From "Designing and Operating the Substation for Maximum Efficiency." Electric Railway Journal 51.15 (Apr. 13, 1918): 701.
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Rear of direct-current section of main control board. From "Designing and Operating the Substation for Maximum Efficiency." Electric Railway Journal 51.15 (Apr. 13, 1918): 701.
Other views of the streetcar substation include,
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bornmilitia
 
Location: SoCal
Gender: Male
Never Be Found
| | | Re: A Cleveland Streetcar Substation
<Reply # 1 on 7/21/2012 2:30 AM >
| | | | SO MANY BOXES OF SPIDERS
"Happiness and sanity are an impossible combination." - Mark Twain
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insanebuslady
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"You talkin' to me?"
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<Reply # 2 on 7/21/2012 2:42 AM >
| | | | Killer writeup, too bad it's completely bombed out
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seicer
Location: New York
Gender: Male
| | | Re: A Cleveland Streetcar Substation
<Reply # 3 on 7/21/2012 12:31 PM >
| | | | Posted by bornmilitia
SO MANY BOXES OF SPIDERS
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Yeah, what the hell is that? Creeped out by spiders enough.
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Adventure Crime
Location: Cleveland
Gender: Male
| | | Re: A Cleveland Streetcar Substation
<Reply # 4 on 8/9/2012 3:43 PM >
| | | | So cool. I love the before and afters. I enjoyed reading the history being from Cleveland myself. Would you think this is worth a look at?
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BPacak
Location: Cleveland
Gender: Male
| | Re: A Cleveland Streetcar Substation
<Reply # 5 on 8/9/2012 8:49 PM >
| | | | nice write up, havent had a chance to check it out yet. always looked pretty well boarded up.
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seicer
Location: New York
Gender: Male
| | | Re: A Cleveland Streetcar Substation
<Reply # 6 on 8/15/2012 2:50 PM >
| | | | Posted by Theresbeautyindecay
So cool. I love the before and afters. I enjoyed reading the history being from Cleveland myself. Would you think this is worth a look at?
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I would say that there is nothing original from the streetcar substation in terms of equipment, but what's inside is photogenic and all rusty - and old. It's worth it if it's accessible.
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Porcelain Doll
 
Location: philadelphia
Gender: Female
Who Cooks For You?
| | | Re: A Cleveland Streetcar Substation
<Reply # 7 on 8/15/2012 4:18 PM >
| | | | Pretty cool, sucks they gutted everything :/
it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
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