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New Haven Rail Yard, Central Steam Plant and Oil Storage, Vicinity of Union Avenue, New Haven, New Haven County, CT
Summary
Significance: The Central Steam Plant is significant as an important component of the New Haven Railroad's maintenance and repair facilities. It was built during a time of thriving passenger service, a period in which the railroad also undertook a massive rebuilding program that updated its freight-car fleet. Through a network of overhead pipes, the plant provided steam to heat the entire shop complex, as well as the nearby passenger station. The boilers, pumps, and other machinery are of interest as examples of early twentieth-century steam-plant technology.
Survey number: HAER CT-160-C
Building/structure dates: 1930 Initial Construction
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Gibbs & Hill
Tredennick-Billings Company
Connecticut Department of Transportation
New Haven Railroad
Babcock and Wilcox
Gibbs, George
Hill, E Roland
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Location
West Haven, 41.29805, -72.92667
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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
