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The Street railway journal (1908) (14573701189)
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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries
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ELi:\.\TKD R.\IL\V.\Y APPRO.ACH TO TERMINAL Coney Island, among them the Nostrand Avenue, Tomp-kins Avenue, Reid Avenue and Franklin Avenue lines.Several other lines also reach amusement resorts. TheMarcy Avenue line is operated to the race track at Sheeps-head Bay, which is opposite Manhattan Beach. The Ham-burg Avenue line is operated to Canarsie and the GrandStreet line to North Beach, both of which are popular re-
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LOADING AND UNLOADING PLATFORMS FOR ELEVATED TRAINS, SHOWING WORK BEFORE TRACKS WERE LAID The surface lines that will use the terminal will be Nos-trand Avenue, Marcy Avenue, Tompkins Avenue, ReidAvenue, Ralph Avenue, Broadway, Hamburg Avenue,Wyckofif Avenue, Grand Street and Bushwick Avenue sur- sorts. The elevated lines that will use the terminal are theBroadway and Cypress Hills and the Canarsie lines ofthe Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. The estimatedcapacity of the trolley loops is 400 cars an hour, and the April ii, 1908.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 593 estimated capacity of the elevated terminal is 30 eight-car nue from Loop 6, Bridge Local from Loop 7, Grand Street trains an hour. • and Franklin Avenue lines from Loop 8. There will be a As far as possible the loops for the different surface lines common stairway to each of the loops 12 ft. wide, divided will be so assigned that the number of passengers using by a railing to separate the incoming from the outgoing pas- KALEVIMAG
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