. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 7. AN OLD-TIJIB L CAR. 2S1 Figs. 9 and lo were taken, one to the west,showing Grants tomb in the distance, andincidentally being over the top of thehouses nearest the track. The other showsa wash out on the line, and gives anidea as to the hight, as well as the methodof drying clothes in the tenement housesof New York. From here to the terminal there isnothing of special interest; but at OneHundred and Fifty-fifth street the ter-minal shown in Fig. ii is quite a revela-tion to the engineer who imagines t
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 7. AN OLD-TIJIB L CAR. 2S1 Figs. 9 and lo were taken, one to the west,showing Grants tomb in the distance, andincidentally being over the top of thehouses nearest the track. The other showsa wash out on the line, and gives anidea as to the hight, as well as the methodof drying clothes in the tenement housesof New York. From here to the terminal there isnothing of special interest; but at OneHundred and Fifty-fifth street the ter-minal shown in Fig. ii is quite a revela-tion to the engineer who imagines thatthe elevated road system is a toy. Theview gives an idea of the size as well asthe capacity of the coaling station, andthe available yard room on stilts; thestreets are below it. It must not be imagined that this triphas been all play, for with a five-car trainsome of the grades put the engines toquite a test—in fact, it is a series of grades,some slight, some severe, but all requir-ing care and constant watchfulness on thepart of the Fig. 8. THE BIG LOOP—ABOUT 50 FEET HIGH. There is little of interest till we passFifty-third street, where the Sixth Ave-nue line joins the Ninth, and we begin toget into a better portion of the city. Tothe right we begin to see glimpses of big reverse curve shown in Fig. 8 isreached, and it seems a little peculiar tobe railroading at a hight of 57 feet overland, not a river in One Hundred and Sixteenth street Brooklyn—the City of Churches, ofHenry Ward Beecher, and the other halfof Greater New York—also has elevatedroads (two of them, in fact), and thejrcross and recross each other as well as 2G2 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. June. 1S9S.
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