. The Street railway journal . most important cable ever built, has many peculiar feat-ures. In the first place, it is operated by a duplicate, andin one division by a triplicate set of ropes. The tworopes are so mounted that they can be operated togetheror singly, and either one may be stopped or started atthe will of the engineer. The line is operated in threedivisions requiring seven ropes, having an aggregateThe Harlem division extends from130th Street to the main power sta-tion at 65th Street and the ropes onthis division are 36,600 ft. in second division extends from65th Stree
. The Street railway journal . most important cable ever built, has many peculiar feat-ures. In the first place, it is operated by a duplicate, andin one division by a triplicate set of ropes. The tworopes are so mounted that they can be operated togetheror singly, and either one may be stopped or started atthe will of the engineer. The line is operated in threedivisions requiring seven ropes, having an aggregateThe Harlem division extends from130th Street to the main power sta-tion at 65th Street and the ropes onthis division are 36,600 ft. in second division extends from65th Street to 6th Street near theCooper Union, and on these twodivisions the ropes are operated fromthe 65th Street station, at a speed ofnine miles per hour. The City Hall,or southern division, extends from6th Street to the Post Office termi-nal. There are three ropes whichare operated from the Bayard Streetstation. Two of them are mountedin the conduit in the ordinary man-ner, and are run at a speed ofseven miles per hour, while the
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