. The Street railway journal . ten-sion tracks and spliced to the oldcable. The tail of the old cablewill be brought down over the sec-ond cable driving drums backthrough the foundation below thefloor, and out through the wall ofthe power house to a drum for old cables, which will probably be placed under the watertanks just south of the chimney shaft. The cars to be used in the subway will have doubletrucks, and will be fifty feet in length, each car being pro-vided with a grip. The estimated weight of the trainswhen loaded is twenty tons each. The greatest possiblenumber of trains which can
. The Street railway journal . ten-sion tracks and spliced to the oldcable. The tail of the old cablewill be brought down over the sec-ond cable driving drums backthrough the foundation below thefloor, and out through the wall ofthe power house to a drum for old cables, which will probably be placed under the watertanks just south of the chimney shaft. The cars to be used in the subway will have doubletrucks, and will be fifty feet in length, each car being pro-vided with a grip. The estimated weight of the trainswhen loaded is twenty tons each. The greatest possiblenumber of trains which can be put on the lines would bethirty, fifteen on each track. A universal fare of onepenny for second class, and two pence for first class, re- Thc Lexington Avenue Cable Power Station ofthe Metropolitan Traction Company. The work of introducing a substitute for animalpower upon its various lines in New York City is beingprosecuted by the Metropolitan Street Railway Companyas vigorously as circumstances will permit. The plans of. r HJ j Street Railway Journal FIG. 1.—PLAN OF MACHINERY—LEXINGTON AVENUE CABLE POWER STATION, NEW YORK CITY. the company to install an underground electric system onone of its uptown lines have already been published inthese columns. While awaiting the results of this trialthe company is completing its projected cable railways onColumbus and Lexington Avenues. The Lexington Avenue railway will be operated froma power station 130 ft. east of Lexington Avenue, andextending from 25th Street to 26th Street. This part ofthe city is devoted to residences, and owing to the high
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