. The Street railway journal . Street, nearthe Post Office, along Park Row, the Bowery and ThirdAvenue to 130th Street, near the Harlem River, a distanceof nearly eight miles, and while there are no corners turnedthere are twenty-eight deflectionsin the line where it was necessaryto employ curve pulleys, the prin-cipal one being a compound curve,500 ft. in length, at ChathamSquare, with radii varying from280 to 500 ft. The lower end of theline terminates in two balloonloops,one beside the main line en-circling the Franklin Statue atPrinting House Square, and theother at Ann Street, which has a
. The Street railway journal . Street, nearthe Post Office, along Park Row, the Bowery and ThirdAvenue to 130th Street, near the Harlem River, a distanceof nearly eight miles, and while there are no corners turnedthere are twenty-eight deflectionsin the line where it was necessaryto employ curve pulleys, the prin-cipal one being a compound curve,500 ft. in length, at ChathamSquare, with radii varying from280 to 500 ft. The lower end of theline terminates in two balloonloops,one beside the main line en-circling the Franklin Statue atPrinting House Square, and theother at Ann Street, which has aradius of forty-one feet, the entr-ance and exit radius being fifty-one and forty-one feet, respective-ly. The rope is carried around theloop by sixty-two horizontal pul-leys thirty-three and five-eighthsinches in diameter. At the Harlemterminal the loop turns into 129thStreet, where it divides into twenty-six parallel tracks which lead overpits in the car barn amd emerge at130 Street, where they converge length of 193,295
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