Identifier: streetrailwayjo191902newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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educing theamount of heat per heater to secure the same temperature. Stillanother point is that as the heat passes into (he car, both by radia-tion and through a flow of hot air, there should be as few obstruc-ts ms as possible between the source of heat and the interior of thecar. It is, of course, impossible to prevent female passengersfrom sitting directly over the healer, but if a carpet covering isused for the seat, it can, at least, be cut short so that it will nothang over (he heater, obstructing the flow of heat and furnishinga pocket for the collection of all sorts of debris.. 82 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XIX. No. 3. The Opening of the Manhattan Elevated Railway The first official trial trip of the new equipment of the Manhat-tan Elevated Railway was run Jan. 9, when an electric train com-posed of six new cars was operated over the entire length of theSecond Avenue division of the Manhattan Elevated Railroad.The train left South Ferry at a few minutes after two, and after
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On the return trip the greater part of the guests left the trainat Seventy-Sixth Street and boarded a number of electric automo-bile omnibuses, which had been furnished by General ManagerSaunderson, of the Electrical Vehicle Company, and were trans-ported to the power station at Seventy-Fourth Street. Some viewsof this station were published in our last issue. One of the im-mense generators had been completed, and was supplying powerfor the service of the electric train, while two others were inprocess of erection. It is understood that electric trains will be putin operation on the Second Avenue line, whichis the first to be run with electricity, as rapidlyas the cars are received from the manufacturers,and it can be only a short space of time beforethe entire line will be in operation. The com-pany has already commenced running oneelectric train on the line, between 10 a. m. and4 p. m., sandwiched between the steam fains,and the third rail is marked with the red signsto indicate tha

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