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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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rsible and may be run in eitherdirection. We give a view of a railway switch board equippedwith Westinghouse appliances, some of which, namely,the circuit breaker and lightning arrestor, have pre-viouslv been described in detail in these columns. Thisboard acconuiiodates three generators and three feeders. station as possible, and when the speed of the car fallsbelow that of the rope, (15 miles an hour), the gripman isto grip the cable and climb the hill at that speed. By this means it is believed a maximum speed betweenstations of 56 miles an hour could be attained, on whichbasis a train could run from the Battery to Harlem intwenty-six minutes, including twenty-six stops, which is thenumber of stations on the line of the elevated road, whichrequires one hour to cover the distance. The line wouldbe independent of water pipes, streets and buildings, andit is claimed, could, by working in sections, be completedin 264 days. Trains would contain six coaches andaccommodate 600 passengers.
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3 —SWITCHBOARD. T TOBOGGAN RAPID TRANSIT. HE jAah abused sea-serpent will not stand nuichof a shmv tliis summer unless the New York RapidTransit Cooimission soon decide on a plan, andremove the hopes of would be promoters, who have hadunrestricted opportunities for bringing their schemesbefore the public. Surely as original as any of the numerous devices sug-gested, is that of the Henning Rapid Transit system, forthe promotion of which a stock company has been alreadyformed. The iirst necessity of this method is a subway to con-tain two tracks laid in the usual manner and equippedAith a cable to be operated at 15 miles per hour,under the ordinary system of cable propulsion for streetcars. The stations which are also to be underground arelocated at convenient distances and easily accessible to thestreet by a few steps. Leading in either direction, theroad makes a down grade of 8 or 10 per cent from thestation, and the plan proposed is to run by gravity downthis incline and as far up

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