Review of reviews and world's work . the Westc!commuters. It is constructing jointly with thePennsylvania Railroad Company theYork Connecting Railroad, including the HellGate bridge, to which we have already will s(Min electrify the main line and HarlemRiver branch for both pas and freight service, and it is building the New York, IBchest 1 Railroad. This line, which is now well under con-struction, is one of the most important of theimprovements in transit facilities in ami aroundNew York. Residents of the upjK-r BronxBorough and the suburban towns oi 1central Westchester County w
Review of reviews and world's work . the Westc!commuters. It is constructing jointly with thePennsylvania Railroad Company theYork Connecting Railroad, including the HellGate bridge, to which we have already will s(Min electrify the main line and HarlemRiver branch for both pas and freight service, and it is building the New York, IBchest 1 Railroad. This line, which is now well under con-struction, is one of the most important of theimprovements in transit facilities in ami aroundNew York. Residents of the upjK-r BronxBorough and the suburban towns oi 1central Westchester County who have dailybusiness in New York are more in need of ade-quate transportation facilities than resideiany other section tributary to the the fall of 1011 a new era will open for thesecommuters, who are to have a railroad builtentirely for them. The New York. Westches-ter & a will then be in operation from itsterminab at White IMains and Portchcstcr. to A NEW T RAX SPORT AT IOX ERA FOR XEW YORK 441 ? ju -ajJAis^-;. A BIRDS-EYE VIEW OF THE OF THE NEW YORK H ? r. railI irom thi ning I to be ? It . in the words of it)1 railroad man. i a betteriir-i Imur r*r<I from the < iiv Mall than thatmade by any other line out f New York. I he iri|» from White Plains and Port< he ter tn ii Manhattan will be almost continuous. A qui* I. ill In- mule at the Willis linal to the s«i ond or Third Avenue running on fifteen min ill iId B . mi ulting time table the Mai I lulu; du< i i in a ui 112 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS exi ept lor a few hundred feet near the southern from having 1<* al transportation facilities com-terminus. Since the wait between trains is parable to even those enjoyed by almost everynever to exceed a \vw minutes, waiting-rooms other American city of 50,000 inhabitants. are to be dispensed with, the long shelteredplatforms taking their place. The New York, Westi hester & Boston Rail-road—a merger of the origin
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