. The Street railway journal . SOUTHBOUND TRACK COMPLETED Brooklyn Elevated system, the Fulton Street line being abovethe other. The distance from the head of the rail on the lowertrack of the girders which formed the bridging span, was for-merly about 13 ft., a slight grade making the southern end ofthe span a small distance higher. This clearance was amply. PLACING ONE OF THE GIRDERS sufficient for the operation of the steam locomotives on thelower track, but would not permit the equipment of the newmotor cars with trolley poles. The result has been that thecompany has been obliged to fit th
. The Street railway journal . SOUTHBOUND TRACK COMPLETED Brooklyn Elevated system, the Fulton Street line being abovethe other. The distance from the head of the rail on the lowertrack of the girders which formed the bridging span, was for-merly about 13 ft., a slight grade making the southern end ofthe span a small distance higher. This clearance was amply. PLACING ONE OF THE GIRDERS sufficient for the operation of the steam locomotives on thelower track, but would not permit the equipment of the newmotor cars with trolley poles. The result has been that thecompany has been obliged to fit the trail cars with trolley polesinstead of the motor cars. It has been impossible, therefore,to run on the Fifth Avenue line single motor cars which wereoriginally intended to descend to the surface by means of theincline at the Thirty-Sixth Street station. This made itnecessary to change cars at this point for the Bath Beach,Bensonhurst and Coney Island service. An incline is nowbeing constructed on the end of the former Sixty-Fifth Streetterminal of this elevated line, and through electric trainsmay be operated to Fort Hamilton. In all the surface work of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company overhead trolley wiresare used, so that it is necessary to have trolley poles on theelevated cars whenever they are expected to run on the surface. The lack of cle
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