. The Street railway journal . JOHN BEAVER, TREASURER. ALFRED LAZARUS, SECRETARY. Executive Officers of the Third Avenue Railroad Company. 40 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. X. No. 1. the gripman, the connecting chain is slack and does notoperate the joint. STREET CONSTRUCTION. The Third Avenue line extends from Ann Street, nearthe Post Office, along Park Row, the Bowery and ThirdAvenue to 130th Street, near the Harlem River, a distanceof nearly eight miles, and while there are no corners turnedthere are twenty-eight deflectionsin the line where it was necessaryto employ curve pulleys, the p
. The Street railway journal . JOHN BEAVER, TREASURER. ALFRED LAZARUS, SECRETARY. Executive Officers of the Third Avenue Railroad Company. 40 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. X. No. 1. the gripman, the connecting chain is slack and does notoperate the joint. STREET CONSTRUCTION. The Third Avenue line extends from Ann Street, nearthe Post Office, along Park Row, the Bowery and ThirdAvenue to 130th Street, near the Harlem River, a distanceof nearly eight miles, and while there are no corners turnedthere are twenty-eight deflectionsin the line where it was necessaryto employ curve pulleys, the prin-cipal one being a compound curve,500 ft. in length, at ChathamSquare, with radii varying from280 to 500 ft. The lower end of theline terminates in two balloonloops,one beside the main line en-circling the Franklin Statue atPrinting House Square, and theother at Ann Street, which has aradius of forty-one feet, the entr-ance and exit radius being fifty-one and forty-one feet, respective-ly. The rope is carried around theloop
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