Talk:74th Street Generating Station

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The 74th Street Generating Station

• ... that the 74th Street Generating Station's interior was once described as "an industrial-grade Grand Canyon"? Source: [Gray, Christopher (May 17, 2012). "Old, Massive, Illustrious And Somehow Overlooked". The New York Times.] "A visit inside the East 74th Street power station is awe-inspiring, an industrial-grade Grand Canyon. The south half of the building, originally for generators, is almost empty. The space soars like the interior of Grand Central, but in work clothes instead of fancy dress."
  • ALT1: ... that the 74th Street Generating Station was once compared to Grand Central Terminal "in work clothes instead of fancy dress"? Source: [Gray, Christopher (May 17, 2012). "Old, Massive, Illustrious And Somehow Overlooked". The New York Times.] "A visit inside the East 74th Street power station is awe-inspiring, an industrial-grade Grand Canyon. The south half of the building, originally for generators, is almost empty. The space soars like the interior of Grand Central, but in work clothes instead of fancy dress."
  • ALT2: ... that in 1919, the 74th Street Generating Station's original engines were replaced by engines that took up one-quarter of the space and produced just as much power? Source: Finlay, W. S. Jr. (May 10, 1919). "Interborough Commissions 60,000-kw Turbo-generator Unit". Electric Railway Journal. Vol. 53, no. 19. pp. 906–908.
  • ALT3: ... that in 1978, the 74th Street Generating Station was used as a testing ground for synthetic liquified coal? Source: "Con Ed to Use Liquified Coal As Experimental New Fuel". Newsday. United Press International. September 11, 1978. p. 25Q.
  • ALT4: ... that the 74th Street Generating Station's original engines were thought to be the largest stationary steam engines ever constructed? Source: Behring, Thomas H. (October–November 2023). "The Engines That Made Manhattan". Mechanical Engineering. Vol. 144, no. 6. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. p. 44.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jacques Presburg
  • Comment: As usual, Transpoman did all the work; I'm merely the nominator.

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