. Electric railway journal . Boston Improvements—Shuttle Train Platform for ShortConnection Between Atlantic Avenue Trainsand Viaduct Car Platform governed by switch positions set by the train starter onduty at the bay window. The main train shed is lighted by about thirty 660-wattinclosed-arc lamps of the direct-current type, hung about21 ft. above the platforms. The latter were extended onthe west side of the station to a total length of about 365 ft.,and the space now available permits fourteen surface carsto be loaded on this side of the building at any one platform extensions are
. Electric railway journal . Boston Improvements—Shuttle Train Platform for ShortConnection Between Atlantic Avenue Trainsand Viaduct Car Platform governed by switch positions set by the train starter onduty at the bay window. The main train shed is lighted by about thirty 660-wattinclosed-arc lamps of the direct-current type, hung about21 ft. above the platforms. The latter were extended onthe west side of the station to a total length of about 365 ft.,and the space now available permits fourteen surface carsto be loaded on this side of the building at any one platform extensions are illuminated under an addi-tional roof, shown in tbe engraving on page 361, by 16-cpincandescent lamps placed in rows about 14 ft. apart, the. Boston Improvements—Elevated Section of East CambridgeExtension lamps being about 6 ft. apart longitudinally and about 14 the floor. The bridge connecting the east platformwith the west train platform crosses the train shed at itssoutherly end at a height of 15 ft. above the floor. It is11 ft. wide and is provided with illumination by ten 16-cplamps carried 9 ft. above the floor and mounted on standards at the railing. A locker room for trainmen is providedunder the westerly platform. At Sullivan Square an emer-gency lighting connection is made with the local centralstation service, so that the platforms will not be throwninto darkness in case of an interruption of the regular rail-way service. EAST CAMBRIDGE VIADUCT, TRACK AND DRAWBRIDGE The East Cambridge extension illustrates the latest prac-tice of the company in the block signaling of surface carsand in track and roadbed construction for viaduct , it is a striking contribution to the bridgearchitectu
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