. Electric railway journal . hop became obvious, and aremarkably complete plant has just been constructed atVan Nest, some 4 miles from the New York terminal ofthe Harlem division at 133d Street and Harlem location was selected for the reason that the Har-lem division of the road handles practically all of thefreight originating in New York City, and within the it is already being heavily worked on account of the de-sire of the management to overhaul spare equipment,such as trucks, driving wheels, motors and the like, sothat it may be kept on hand ready to install quicklyupon disabl
. Electric railway journal . hop became obvious, and aremarkably complete plant has just been constructed atVan Nest, some 4 miles from the New York terminal ofthe Harlem division at 133d Street and Harlem location was selected for the reason that the Har-lem division of the road handles practically all of thefreight originating in New York City, and within the it is already being heavily worked on account of the de-sire of the management to overhaul spare equipment,such as trucks, driving wheels, motors and the like, sothat it may be kept on hand ready to install quicklyupon disabled locomotives without involving the neces-sity for holding the engine out of service. At presentthe shop has to take care of forty-eight locomo-tives and fifty-two straight locomotives. The multi-ple-unit cars number twenty-seven, of which twenty-oneare and six straight GENERAL ARRANGEMENT The shops, as shown in the accompanying line cut, aresituated to the north of a large coach yard alongside. Electric Ry. Journal New Haven Shops—General Arrangement of Existing and Future Buildings next few months, when the electrification is completed toNew Haven, a majority of the locomotives will pass theshop on their regular runs. In addition to this, a largenumber of switch engines are operated in the freightyards along the Harlem division, and their require-ments, together with those of the multiple-unit cars forthe commuting traffic out of New York, make the loca-tion of the shop peculiarly advantageous. The facilities of the original shop at Stamford havebeen inadequate for several years past, as the extraordi-nary growth of passenger traffic on the New York, NewHaven & Hartford since electrification has exceeded allof the estimates. In fact, the locomotivesoperating over the present electrified zone and over thetracks of the New York Central to the Grand Centralterminal in New York are very heavily overworked, be-ing required to handle train
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