Bainbridge Power Plant Now Nearly Complete
Afton Enterprise, September 13, 1945
With construction of the New York State Electric & Gas Corporation's new 44,000 horsepower generating plant at Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] entering its final stages, dedication ceremonies were tentatively set for December 1.
Announcement of plans for the formal opening of the giant plant was made by E.M. Cole, local manager of the company, as workmen rushed final work on a myriad of tasks essential to completion of the station.
Actual erection of the main building on the bank of the Susquehanna River has been completed. Mechanical installations have been made except for miscellaneous piping and installations. Most of the electrical equipment has been installed but considerable electrical work remains to be done including testing of equipment preliminary to operation.
The plant at Bainbridge is a part of the company's $10,000,000 construction of outdoor substations, [The project included construction of the] screenhouse, the chlorinating house, track hopper-house garage, intake tunnel, discharge tunnel, deepening of the river bed and laying of 2,800 feet of track. Part of the double track has been in use for some time with the company's gasoline-powered locomotive operating over it.
With one other station, the plant at Bainbridge holds the distinction of having the largest traveling-grate stokers in the world, each measuring 24 feet wide by 28 feet long. The Bainbridge steam generators are the largest fired with anthracite stokers.
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