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Market Street Elevated Railway, Allison Substation, Intersection of Market & Allison Streets between Fifty-fifth & Fifty-sixth Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
Summary
Significance: It is one of approximately 10 electrical conversion-and-distribution stations built in Philadelphia between 1903-08 by and for the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company. Located on the north side of Market Street just east of the 56th Street Station, it was built primarily to convert centrally-generated alternating current power to direct current power for distribution to the Market Street line...
Survey number: HAER PA-507-E
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 40.00324, -75.13981
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
