. The Street railway journal . YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD October 12, 1907.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 555 YARD DIAGRAMS The cut on page 556 shows the scheme of third-rail connec-tions throughout in the Grand Central yard and in the vicinityof substations 1,2,3 and 7. The long lines projecting fromeach rectangle representinga circuit breaker house orsubstation indicate thesubstation bus bars. Four-teen train tracks and aladder connection in theLexington Avenue ter-minal for suburban trainsare shown, as well astwelve tracks for throughtrains in the Grand Cen-tral Station itself. Thevarious third-rail
. The Street railway journal . YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD October 12, 1907.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 555 YARD DIAGRAMS The cut on page 556 shows the scheme of third-rail connec-tions throughout in the Grand Central yard and in the vicinityof substations 1,2,3 and 7. The long lines projecting fromeach rectangle representinga circuit breaker house orsubstation indicate thesubstation bus bars. Four-teen train tracks and aladder connection in theLexington Avenue ter-minal for suburban trainsare shown, as well astwelve tracks for throughtrains in the Grand Cen-tral Station itself. Thevarious third-rail jumperconnections between thedifferent yard tracks arealso indicated. The diagram on page558 illustrates the tracklayout at the Grand Cen-tral terminal, and that onpage 557 the layout at is not necessary for the employee responsible for closing thecircuit breaker corresponding to his section to go back to thecircuit breaker house on foot and thereby lose time. Eachsection of the yard is provided with a separate circuit breaker. 3rd RailFeeder Section Switch » :4-20 Substation ~3Kbi;s
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