Elmwood Rail Parallel Substation (Providence, Rhode Island)
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railway, electrical sub-station
Paralleling Substation on Amtrak's Shore Line converting 50Kv feeder current to 25Kv for traction power. Also contains breakers for a catenary section break.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak's_60_Hz_Traction_Power_System
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 41°47'53"N 71°25'43"W
- SS154 LAWN 8.9 km
- Edaville Railroad 54 km
- CSX Worcester Rail Yard 60 km
- SS119 GROTON 73 km
- Abandoned ROW of Southern New England Railroad 81 km
- MBTA (B&M) Wildcat Branch 90 km
- The Minnechoag Mountain cut in Ludlow 94 km
- Farmington River Rail Trail 124 km
- Cedar Hill Rail-Yard New Haven, CT 132 km
- SS71 DEVON Interlocking & Movable Bridge 155 km
- Reservoir 0.4 km
- West End 0.9 km
- Elmwood 0.9 km
- Lower South Providence 1.7 km
- Roger Williams Park 2.2 km
- Auburn 2.4 km
- Silver Lake 2.5 km
- Washington Park 2.8 km
- Knightsville 3 km
- Edgewood 3.3 km