. The Street railway journal . stem, is composed of prominentengineering experts in every line of work included in this enter-prise. It is a significant fact, illustrative of the thoroughness withwhich the preliminary organization has been perfected, that theengineering department has already completed plans for thepower plant in Long Island City, which will be the first one tobe installed, and this plant will be utilized in the constructionwork. There will be another electrical power plant in New Jersey, January 3. 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. I 41 not be undertaken until the work on the tu
. The Street railway journal . stem, is composed of prominentengineering experts in every line of work included in this enter-prise. It is a significant fact, illustrative of the thoroughness withwhich the preliminary organization has been perfected, that theengineering department has already completed plans for thepower plant in Long Island City, which will be the first one tobe installed, and this plant will be utilized in the constructionwork. There will be another electrical power plant in New Jersey, January 3. 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. I 41 not be undertaken until the work on the tunnel has progressedconsiderably. For the present el¥orts will be directed towardcompleting the Long Island branch of the work, including thetransformation of the Atlantic Avenue line of the Long IslandRailroad Company into an electric system. This will extend NEW CARS FOR CHICAGO & MILWAUKEE ELECTRICRAILROAD The J. G. Brill Company, of Philadelphia, has lately built anumber of combination passenger and baggage and express. COMBINATION CAR FOR CHICAGO & MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC RAILROAD from ilatbusli Avenue to Jamaica, and will liave a pliysicalconnection with the Rapid Transit Suljway system, but it hasnot yet been determined whether the cars of the Long IslandRailway will be operated through the subway or not. The problems involved in the tunnel project and the relationsof the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Long Island Railroad andother contributory lines have been very carefully worked out,and it is believed that the completion of the undertaking will cars for tlie Cliicago & Milwaukee Electric Railway combination cars are of the Brill patented semi-convertibletype. They are 40 ft. long over end panels and 45 ft. overvestibules. The width over sheathing is 8 ft. 10 ins. The bag-gage compartments are 15 ft. long, and have sliding doors 4 There are sixteen 39-in. reversible seats and two longi-tudinal corner seats in the passenger compartment. This com-partment is
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