PRR Richmond Rotary Frequency Converter (removed) (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
USA /
New Jersey /
Pennsauken /
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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/ USA
/ New Jersey
/ Pennsauken
World / United States / Pennsylvania
railway, abandoned / shut down, power station, historical layer / disappeared object
Utilized motor-generator sets to convert 60Hz power from the adjacent PECO Richmond Power Station to 25Hz for the Pennsylvania Railroad's electrification. In use from 1930 to 2002, when it was replaced with a new static converter nearby. Demolished sometime around 2007.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak's_25_Hz_traction_power_system
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 39°59'9"N 75°4'27"W
- Reading Co. Port Richmond (Defunct) 4.5 km
- Reading Frankford Branch (Abandoned) 7 km
- North Penn Railroad ROW/Reading North Penn Line to old Berks St. Depot (abandoned) 8.3 km
- PRR Bustleton Branch (Abandoned) 12 km
- Fairmount Park Trolley (Abandoned) 13 km
- PRR Cresheim Valley/Fort Washington Branch (Abandoned) 20 km
- PRR Main Line (Northeast Corridor) - Original Alignment 21 km
- PRR Trenton Cutoff (Original Grade) (Abandoned) 25 km
- Norfolk Southern Morrisville Yard 30 km
- Reading Trenton Branch (Mostly Abandoned) 38 km
- Northeast Water Pollution Control 0.8 km
- Tioga Marine Terminal 1.2 km
- Interstate 95 Exits 26 & 27 1.4 km
- Bridesburg 1.6 km
- Port Richmond 1.9 km
- Frankford 3.3 km
- Juniata Park - Feltonville 4.6 km
- Camden County, New Jersey 24 km
- Burlington County, New Jersey 33 km
- Montgomery County, Pennsylvania 35 km