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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ers so that theconduit is quickly andadequately drained. Fig. 4 shows the railrecently adopted as stand-ard by the MetropolitanCompany. It is a 9-in.girder weighing 106 lbs.,and is rolled by the Penn-sylvania Steel Co., ofSteelton,and the WilliamWharton, Jr.,Co., of Phil-adelpia, of similar sec-tion to that laid last year.The rails are in lengthsof 30-ft., but in each 100rails six shorter ones arepermitted. The jointsare fished, with 13 bolts.During the coming sea-son about 50 miles of track will be laid with this rail. As can readily be seen bythe drawings, the track and roadbed are of the most sub-stantial construction and seemingly no expense has beenspared to make everything as enduring as can be. About 400 cars will be put in service on these lines and toprovide for this additional demand for power seven 850-k.w. direct connected generators will be set up, four at thecable power house on 25th street near Lexington avenue,and three at the temporary station which operates the Lenox
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FIGURE 5. (^M;ieet9\aiWaylJye^^ 249 avenue line at 146th street.Recently the company haspurchased a piece of landat 96th street on Northriver, upon which a stationof 20,000 horse-povi^erultimate capacity will bebuilt. Another station ofthe same capacity is pro-jected in the southern partof the city, but its exactlocation has not vet beendetermined. The accompanying mapindicates how extensivethis new system is to be,and it is likely only a stepin changing all the lines ofthe Metropolitan Com-pany to electric conduit.The heavy dark line represents the extent of the Lenoxavenue line and the dotted lines the proposed extensions..\s the lines stretch from one end of the island to the otherthey go far toward giving New York a system of rapidtransit.

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