. The Street railway journal . anager Black there are now 450•cars in operation on the lines. They are mostly of the new at street intersections. The motormen received the neworders a few days ago and inspectors have been giveninstructions for their strict enforcement. The United Rail-roads have begun the work of restoring their portion ofHarrison Street, between Fourth and Sixth Streets, so thatthe companies having contracts with the Board of Super-visors for repairing this thoroughfare can begin operations^shortly. 1206 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXX. No. 26. CAR ELEVATOR FOR THE HUDSON R
. The Street railway journal . anager Black there are now 450•cars in operation on the lines. They are mostly of the new at street intersections. The motormen received the neworders a few days ago and inspectors have been giveninstructions for their strict enforcement. The United Rail-roads have begun the work of restoring their portion ofHarrison Street, between Fourth and Sixth Streets, so thatthe companies having contracts with the Board of Super-visors for repairing this thoroughfare can begin operations^shortly. 1206 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXX. No. 26. CAR ELEVATOR FOR THE HUDSON RIVER TUNNELS An interesting elevator installation has recently beencompleted at the Hoboken, N. J., terminal of the Hudson& Manhattan Railway Company tunnels under the HudsonRiver. This elevator is to take in and remove from thetunnels the electrically equipped passenger cars which willoperate in these tunnels. It is located in the yard of theHudson Companies, which adjoins the Hoboken terminalof the Lackawanna AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WELL The passenger cars which will operate in the tunnels are48 ft. long, over all, and 9 ft. wide. They weigh whenempty 64,000 lbs., and when loaded with passengers 85,000lbs. To raise and lower these cars into and out of the tun-nel there has been installed an elevator of 100,000 lbs. lift-ing capacity, with a platform 50 ft. long and 12 ft. wide. Provision for this elevator was made first by constructinga wellway, having reinforced concrete walls from theground level to the tunnel. Upon the side walls of thisstructure are placed six steel columns supporting a steelgirder framing directly over the hoistway, and upon thesegirders the machine operating the elevator platform isplaced. This machine consists of two drum shafts each 50 , one placed near each side of the wellway. Thesedrum shafts are at the center of their length, driven by asystem of four balanced worm gears, arranged so that theload on all four worm gears is equal un
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