Photograph of the interior of the substation at the Albany and Hudson Railroad station, North Chatham, N.Y., 1900.

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Title	Photograph of the interior of the substation at the Albany and Hudson Railroad station, North Chatham, N.Y., 1900.
Creator	Biser, John
Date.Original	1900
Description	Interior of the substation in the Albany and Hudson Railroad station at North Chatham. Five men are inside the substation room with a turbine on the right. Written on original negative envelope: "No. 44 Sept-2-1900 Interior Power House at No. Chatham"
Notes	The Albany and Hudson's North Chatham Station was built about 1900. It served the 35-mile third-rail line between Hudson and Albany. The single-story brick station included an express room, waiting room, and ticket office. Power for the third rail was generated from the company's hydroelectric station at Stuyvesant Falls and carried by high-tension lines to each of the railroad's three substations at Hudson, North Chatham, and Greenbush. All three also functioned as passenger stations. In the North Chatham substation, housed in the south end of the building, the 12,000-volt alternating current was stepped down to 380 volts in air-blast transformers, and commuted to 600-volts dc in rotary converters, the pressure at which it was delivered to the third rail.
Subject.TGM	Machinery Industrial facilities Railroads Electric railroads Railroad stations
Corporate Name	Albany and Hudson Railroad Company
Location	North Chatham (N.Y.) Columbia County (N.Y.)
HRVH Topic	Business & Industry Transportation Work & Labor
Format.Original	Photograph: Negative, glass plate, b&w; 4 x 5 in. (10.16 x 12.7 cm.)
Type	Still Image
Resource Identifier	cchs.1987.020.0120
Publisher.Digital	Columbia County Historical Society
Date.Digital	2005-07-27
Format.Digital	image/jpeg
Digital Collection	Columbia County Historical Society Collection
Holding Institution	Columbia County Historical Society, Kinderhook, New York
Contact Information	5 Albany Avenue P. O. Box 311 Kinderhook, New York 12106 518-758-9265 www.cchsny.org
Rights	Prior written permission is required for use of this digital image. Contact the holding institution for information.
Technical Data	Archival TIFF - MicroTek ScanMaker 8700; MicroTek ScanWizard Pro 6.52; Adobe Photoshop 5.0 LE; 8 bit grayscale; 610 ppi; Grayscale; 7.21 MB; 2440 x 3098 pixels; no compression Acess JPEG - Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0; 150 ppi; Grayscale; 100 KB; 473 x 600 pixels

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