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Identifier: streetrailwayjo181901newy (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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its income return, it is said, to about 4.35 per cent. The totalmileage of the system is about 135 miles. ■ Proposed High-Speed Line Near New York Applications have been made by William C. Gotshall, of 76William Street, New York, for right to construct a high-speedelectric road between I32d Street, New York, and Portchester, N. Y., a distance of some 25 miles. Four tracks will be used andwill be laid almost entirely on private property and with no gradecrossings. Two of the tracks will be used for express trains andthe company will run only passenger trains. About 200 of theseeach way are promised daily. The route of the proposed road is shown in the diagram here-with. It will connect with the new rapid transit tunnel system ati82d and I32d Streets, with the Manhattan Elevated at 177thStreet, and with the surface roads at different points. It is said thatall the necessary money has been raised, and the work of buildingthe road, which will require eighteen months to complete, will be
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82 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVIIL No. 3. begun just as soon as the legal requisites have been complied with.Associated with Mr. Gotshall in the engineering portion of the pro-posed line is C. O. Mailloux. The fares on the new line will be one-third the present fares onthe New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, and the tripbetween Portchester and City Hall, New York, will be made insixty-six minutes. The engineering features will necessarily bequite novel and are now engaging the attention of those in charge.Cars weighing 55 tons, loaded, will be used and the third-rail sys-tem will probably be employed. ■ The New York Central Tunnel New York, July 10, 1901.Editors Street Railway Journal : It seems to be the popular policy in New York just now toclub every railway head in sight, and the daily papers havingexhausted the subject of congestion on the Brooklyn Bridge, andhaving paid their respects to the managers of the MetropolitanStreet Railway Company for allowing passenger

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  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
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