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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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g feature of our capacity, above all, is the Fifty-Third Street and Ninth Avenue junction. During the rush hourseighty-one trains per hour pass this point, going north only,which number cannot with safety be exceeded, and they are massed on one track at 115th Street. The only means of relief isthe enlargement of all trains to six cars on the main lines, and tofive cars on the Fifty-Eighth Street branch. There are now running on Sixth Avenue twenty-six trains offive cars each, which will become six-car trains, being twenty-sixcars additional, and ten trains of three cars each, which will be-come five-car trains, being twenty cars additional, making forty-six additional cars on the Sixth Avenue line, as soon as electricalequipment is fully installed. On Ninth Avenue there will be changed thirty express trainsfrom five to six cars, twenty-four local trains from five to six cars,an addition of iifty-four cars in all on that line. There are running to-day on Sixth Avenue twenty-six six-car
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VIEW IN DOWNTOWN NEW YORK electric trains. Eight more will be ready for operation within twoweeks. Every engine that is withdrawn tends to the regularity andbetter speed of the service. On the East Side lines every train from all terminals now hassix cars, and it is planned to run forty-two trains of 252 cars onSecond and Third Avenues, now stopping at 129th Street, throughto i6rst Street, in rush hours, as soon as track material orderedmonths ago is received and put jn place. It is expected that, with the delivery of electrical apparatus andtrack material and new cars by outside builders, and with the re-modeling of cars in our own shops, all the improvements outlined,which have been in hand for two years last past, will be com-pleted by April next. The number of trains now being operated on the ManhattanElevated system in the two hours, 5 oclock to 7 oclock p. m.,is shown herewith for each line: SECOND AVENUE LINE Twenty-five trains 4:59 P-m. to 6:01 p.m. Twenty-one trains 6:03 p.m.

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