. American engineer and railroad journal . o a ■4 o aob< ao § I s oooPS 13P* Passenger Traffic in New York.—When it is rememberedthat the Manhattan elevated and subway systems alone, onbut a little over fifty miles of road, carry two-thirds as manypassengers as do the steam railroads of the United States onover 200,000 miles, it needs no demonstration to show that thenumber of passengers interchanged with the Grand CentralStation, the terminus not only of the New York Central sys-tem, but of the New England railroads as well, does not con- stitute a large percentage. Even in London, where t
. American engineer and railroad journal . o a ■4 o aob< ao § I s oooPS 13P* Passenger Traffic in New York.—When it is rememberedthat the Manhattan elevated and subway systems alone, onbut a little over fifty miles of road, carry two-thirds as manypassengers as do the steam railroads of the United States onover 200,000 miles, it needs no demonstration to show that thenumber of passengers interchanged with the Grand CentralStation, the terminus not only of the New York Central sys-tem, but of the New England railroads as well, does not con- stitute a large percentage. Even in London, where the facili-ties are inferior to an American city, the board of engineersin their report advising the royal commission show that onetrolley terminus, where the lines, through opposition, arecompelled to stop short of ultimate destination, dischargesand receives more passengers than are similarly handled atsix large railroad passenger stations combined.—W. B. Par-sons, before Purdue students. January, 1906. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILR
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