. Electric railway journal . TYPE 27-A MASTER CONTROLLER COVERED AND WITH COVERREMOVED the New York Municipal Railway Corporation, both ofwhich have adopted Westinghouse electropneumaticcontrol. The Belmont, or Steinway, Tunnel be Ihe first newsection placed in operation by ho Interborough Rapid. TYPE 214 CONTROL BOX—END VIEW, SHOWING PK DRUMAND OVERLOAD TRIP Transit Company and will probably be opened aboutJune 1. The route of the tunnel is from Lexington Ave-nue and Forty-second Street, in the heart of Manhattan,under Forty-second Street and the East River to Jack-son Avenue in the boro
. Electric railway journal . TYPE 27-A MASTER CONTROLLER COVERED AND WITH COVERREMOVED the New York Municipal Railway Corporation, both ofwhich have adopted Westinghouse electropneumaticcontrol. The Belmont, or Steinway, Tunnel be Ihe first newsection placed in operation by ho Interborough Rapid. TYPE 214 CONTROL BOX—END VIEW, SHOWING PK DRUMAND OVERLOAD TRIP Transit Company and will probably be opened aboutJune 1. The route of the tunnel is from Lexington Ave-nue and Forty-second Street, in the heart of Manhattan,under Forty-second Street and the East River to Jack-son Avenue in the borough of Queens. The tunnel,which is of the single-tube type, is 8375 ft. long and hasa maximum grade of 4% per cent. There is no physicalconnection with the present subway, but both terminals of the Steinway Tunnel will ultimately be linked withthe enlarged system. The motor cars to be used in this tube are of thesame general type as the steel cars now used in theInterborough subway, and are being built by the PressedSteel Car Company, McKees Rocks, Pa. In order tomaintain a very rapid schedule the trains are equippedwith automatic electric couplers and electrically-con-trolled air brakes. The most important part of the Type 214-A automaticcontrol, which is furnished on these cars, is the swi
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