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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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with \entilators in the form of flower gardens in the street. 13. Dr. Sheffields elevated tunnel through the blocks. 14. Major Hennings gravity system. 15. J. Coleman Drayton and Col. Hazards city railway. 16. R. W. Gibbons two track and four track under-ground railway. 17. Frank Spragues four track tubular system. 18. William Walters underground railway. 19. The Writers combination surface and subwayrailway. It would be manifestly impossible to explain and criti-cise all these schemes and we shall therefore confine 2)h«< ^J^iU«M%^^- 135 ourselves to a few of those w liieli lia\ (.■ been liroiiL;lil moreproinineiitlv before tlic public than others ami we willbe<nti with the Manhattan railway extensions. It has alreach been remarked that this company arenot asking power for occupying another a\enui\ TluSuburban Rajiicl Transit Co.s line which lluy lia\i jus^acquired will carr\ thcni across the ri\er to the new dis-trict of Monisania.
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BOYNTON BICYCLE LOCOMOTIVK. Thev ask further for powers to build a road along thesouth bank of Harlem ri\er between Third and EighthAvenues, and a continuation of the Eighth Avenue linefrom Sixty-tifth Street along the boulevard to Washing-ton Heights and Kings Bridge. These extensions ifsanctioned will form the Manhattan intoa complete belt line having two spurs,one into Morrisania and the other toWashington Heights. The latter willbe a stiff climb but as a whole the im-provement to the system will be a verydecided one and will bring an extendedarea w ithin reach of the raihva\ . Thethorn in the side of this great and use-ful undertaking is that the structure isnot adapted for heavy trains and couldnt)t safely be burdened witli extratracks. Some attempts have been madeto increase its carrying power. Onevery costly piece of work was carriedout upon the Third Avenue line, inaltering the original Warren girders tolattice girders by introducing fresh w ebmembers during the running of the

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