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Description: Identifier: streetrailwayjo311908newy (find matches) Title: The Street railway journal Year: 1884 (1880s) Authors: Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: April iir i9o8.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. Text Appearing After Image: 595 vated tracks near the NewYork tower, and tlien willbe switched to their owntracks at the throat of thetunnel. By this means itwill be possible to carry onthe work of demolishingthe present surface carstub terminal. In Brook-lyn the elevated structur-ewas extended several hun-dred feet across to thebridge plaza to connectwith the elevated tracks onthe bridge proper. At the street level theentrances and e.xits to theelevated terminal and sur-face loops will be protectedby stair houses of artisticdesign finislied in terracotta. In addition therewill be an artistic shelter atwhich the cars of the NewYork City Railway Com-pany, which are operatedto and from Brooklyn onthe north side of the bridge,will stop. Many of thepassengers on the NewYork City Railway de-stined to points in Brook-lyn will transfer at the NewYork approach to theBrooklyn cars and the shel-ter will afford ample pro-tection. These buildingsare all shown in the accom-panying illustrations. The station will be cooledby Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: The Street railway journal (1908) (14760357355)
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