3D print the East River Generating Station
A free, printable model of the East River Generating Station, with its tall chimneys, and the waterfront blocks around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 30 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
30 mm tall on a 160 mm print
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Four tall chimneys
The slim smokestacks are the most fragile part of this model. Print slowly with good cooling, and use Full detail on a larger print if you want them kept at full height.
- Long brick hall
The long, tall hall has many window openings along its walls. A layer height of 0.12-0.16 mm keeps them crisp, and Print friendly simplifies the smallest at small sizes.
- One piece with the ground
The East River Generating Station is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The East River Generating Station takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the East River Generating Station
On Manhattan's East River, where East 14th Street ends to the east, next to the East Village, and to Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village, stands a power plant: the East River Generating Station. The New York Edison Company built it, and it began operating in 1926. It was expanded in the 1950s and repowered in the early 2000s. As a cogeneration plant it supplies electricity and steam, and it is the main plant of the city's steam network.
In 1924, New York Edison decided it needed a new station for its 25-hertz system. The waterfront site let coal-carrying vessels dock beside the plant, and Thomas E. Murray designed it with the company's engineers. Plans called for nine generators totaling 700 MW. The first two, built by General Electric, were so big they could not be shipped and were put together on site. At full output the plant would draw 3,000,000 L (800,000 US gallons) of water every minute, so it was designed to use the East River.
Queen Marie of Romania started the first of the plant's steam turbines, rated at 60 MW, on November 23, 1926. Two smokestacks were built at first, each standing 114.8 m (376.5 feet) above the basement floor, and seven were planned in all. Cyclone collectors on the roof cleaned particulates from the smoke. A 160 MW third generator started in October 1929, and units 5 and 6, at 125 MW each, entered service in 1951.
About this model
The East River Generating Station is one of more than 4,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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