. Electric railway review . Tunnels to Manhattan Island—Internal Concrete Lining for SouthTunnel, New York & Jersey Railroad. This underground system will be built according to subwaystandards suitable for the operation of cars by the third-railand multiple-unit systems. Whether surface cars from vari-ous lines comprising the New York & Queens County Rail-way system are continued over the tunnel route or provisionis made for transfer to cars of the subway type for rapidtransit, the thousands of surface line passengers in Queenscounty who now depend upon the Forty-second street ferrieswill be a
. Electric railway review . Tunnels to Manhattan Island—Internal Concrete Lining for SouthTunnel, New York & Jersey Railroad. This underground system will be built according to subwaystandards suitable for the operation of cars by the third-railand multiple-unit systems. Whether surface cars from vari-ous lines comprising the New York & Queens County Rail-way system are continued over the tunnel route or provisionis made for transfer to cars of the subway type for rapidtransit, the thousands of surface line passengers in Queenscounty who now depend upon the Forty-second street ferrieswill be able to reach the Grand Central depot and the New. Tunnels to Manhattan Island—Interior of Rapid Transit Tunnelat Battery Park. York subway system quickly and conveniently. Preliminarywork on these tunnels was started in July, 1905. Excavationhas been completed from Park avenue to the river and theheadings between Manhattan and Blackwells Island reef areexpected to meet before January 1. The excavation of thelower segment of one bore should be completed during the ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW November, 1906. ■week beginning Xovember 11. On the Long Island sidethe has proceeded through rock a distanceof 400 feet beyond the bulkhead line and the workmen haveBOW encountered decomposed rock which permits of fasterprogress. The uncertainties of tunnel work are such that itIs impossible to predict when track-laying will be made pos-sible. The work on the New York & Long Island tunnels Isunder the engineering direction of Mr. St. John Clarke, chief
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