. Electric railway journal . ldings which were previously onthe site have been utilized for waiting room, ticket officeand news-stand and also with numerous offices on theupper floors. Previous to the construction of this terminal the carscame up only as far as Fifteenth Street on New YorkAvenue, and loading was done from the street at theselocations. The crowds waiting for cars in the streetsled to such an interruption of traffic that protests wereconstantly being made and there were also generalobjections on the part of the public to the practice ofloading these large interurban cars from th
. Electric railway journal . ldings which were previously onthe site have been utilized for waiting room, ticket officeand news-stand and also with numerous offices on theupper floors. Previous to the construction of this terminal the carscame up only as far as Fifteenth Street on New YorkAvenue, and loading was done from the street at theselocations. The crowds waiting for cars in the streetsled to such an interruption of traffic that protests wereconstantly being made and there were also generalobjections on the part of the public to the practice ofloading these large interurban cars from the new special trackwork was furnished by the LorainSteel Company. Paulista Locomotive Ready for Delivery THE first Baldwin-Westinghouse freight locomotivefor the Paulista (Brazil) Railway has been com-pleted and tested. The passenger locomotives are near-ing completion. The initial service on the double-trackline between Jundiahy and Campifias, a route-mileageof 28, will be furnished with eight freight locomotives. BALDWIN-WESTINGHOUSE 3,000-VOLT DIRECT-CURRENTFREIGHT LOCOMOTIVE FOR PAULISTA RAILWAY and four passenger machines. Orders for two of eachtype were obtained by the Westinghouse Electric &Manufacturing Company. The remaining eight loco-motives are being built by the General Electric Company. This electrification marks a milestone in the broadapplication of the natural resources of Brazil throughthe replacement of imported coal for power locomotives are to be used in main-line freightservice on the Paulista Railway, which is the mainbroad-gage trunk line of the most prosperous and pro-ductive part of the State of Sao Paulo. This type locomotive weighs 105 metric tons (231,-000 lb.) and has six driving axles each equipped withone 280-hp. direct-current motor. The motors are ar-ranged for operation with two in series on the 3,000-voltline. Each locomotive is designed to handle trailingloads up to 770 tons over a line having a maximum gradeof a
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