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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
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ined strictly to American prod-ucts, and has the indorsement of the Department of Com-merce and Labor of the United States. The New Yorkoffice of the American committee in charge of the exposi-tion is at 50 Church Street. STEEL PASSENGER CARS FOR THE HUDSON & MAN-HATTAN RAILROAD On July 19, 1909, the Hudson & Manhattan Railroadopened for service the two downtown tunnels under theHudson River connecting the new terminal building atCortlandt and Church Streets, Manhattan, with the Pennsyl-vania Railroad station in Jersey City, N. J., and early inAugust the land tunnels under Jersey City and Hobokenwere completed, thus making it possible to run throughtrains from the downtown terminal station to the Delaware,Lackawanna & Western station in Hoboken, where con-nection is made with the uptown system of tunnels. Toprovide ample rolling stock to handle the heavy traffic inthis new extension the railroad company placed an orderwith the Pressed Steel Car Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., in
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Hudson & Manhattan Steel Car—End View November, 1908, for 50 all-steel cars of a design somewhatsimilar to the original cars purchased in 1907, but embody-ing many improvements which experience with the earliercars indicated would be desirable. In January, 1909, 40more cars of the improved design were ordered from thesame builders, making a total of 90 new equipments. Thecompletion of the entire order by the date planned for theopening of the new tunnels was specially stipulated in theorders, and through close co-operation between the railroadcompany and the builder most of the cars were delivered ontime, notwithstanding labor troubles which subsequentlyarose and delayed delivery of part of the order for someweeks. The trucks for these cars were ordered from the Amer-ican Locomotive Company, the total order including 92 mo-tor and the same number of trailer trucks. The new cars were built to the designs and specificationsof the engineers of the railroad company, with some slight

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