. Electric railway journal . uilding. At BAGGAGE HANDLING FACILITIES Inasmuch as the new tunnels will make connections withthe steam railroad stations on the New Jersey side, pro-vision was made for handling baggage as well as passengersto and from the terminal station. A baggage receivingand delivery room has been built on the street level facingon Dey Street. From this receiving room two hydraulicplunger elevators run down to the basement level under thetrain platform level. It was the original intention to runa baggage car as the last car of each passenger train, andbaggage elevators were i
. Electric railway journal . uilding. At BAGGAGE HANDLING FACILITIES Inasmuch as the new tunnels will make connections withthe steam railroad stations on the New Jersey side, pro-vision was made for handling baggage as well as passengersto and from the terminal station. A baggage receivingand delivery room has been built on the street level facingon Dey Street. From this receiving room two hydraulicplunger elevators run down to the basement level under thetrain platform level. It was the original intention to runa baggage car as the last car of each passenger train, andbaggage elevators were installed at both ends of. each ofthe two loading platforms. These elevators run down tothe floor below, where trucking passages are provided, lead-ing to the two main baggage elevators running up throughthe westerly platform to the receiving room on the streetlevel. Since the station was completed a change has beendecided upon in the method of handling baggage, as it wasthought that an attempt to operate baggage cars as part. Hudson Terminal—Ticket-Selling Booths on Concourse Level- frequent intervals, however, a cluster of five incandescentlamps, forming part of the ceiling illumination, is connectedto the third-rail power circuit. This insures against totaldarkness in the station in case the lighting circuits towhich most of the ceiling clusters are connected should lamps on the edges of the platforms are also connectedto the third-rail power circuit. No automatic switches havebeen installed to cut in outside current in casethe local supply should fail, but the switchboard in the sub-station in the basement of the building is connected througha hand-operated cut-out switch with the mains of the NewYork Edison Company. This makes available almost in-stantaneously an independent source of current. A largestorage battery which floats on the building lighting cir-cuits affords a supply of current for short periods withoutany interruption to the lights in cas
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