. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Fig. 3. COLUMNS IN THE rig. 2. SIHK STATIONS AT llll:TV-Si:iciM> STKKET. June, 1898. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 25» of the track and station platforms, to saynothing of the signs on the adjoiningbuildings. The station platforms areflush with the car platforms, so that thereis no climbing up and down car steps atstations, which accounts for the shortstops required at stations. Some idea of the appearance of thestructure, both in the street and whereit spans from side to side, is given byFigs. 3 a
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Fig. 3. COLUMNS IN THE rig. 2. SIHK STATIONS AT llll:TV-Si:iciM> STKKET. June, 1898. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 25» of the track and station platforms, to saynothing of the signs on the adjoiningbuildings. The station platforms areflush with the car platforms, so that thereis no climbing up and down car steps atstations, which accounts for the shortstops required at stations. Some idea of the appearance of thestructure, both in the street and whereit spans from side to side, is given byFigs. 3 and 4. Needless to say, it is thor-oughly substantial, and if anyone imaginesit a kind of a play railroad, he is very leaving the downtown stations and run-ning around the regular local trains. Asall traffic is downtown in the morning anduptown at night, this works very well, andis used to store the extra cars during theligiht hours. Starting from the upper terminal, orroundhouse, at One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street, on the Ninth Avenue line, theengine brings a train down to the Battery,the lower end or peak of New
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