The Street railway journal (1908) (14573662220)

Identifier: streetrailwayjo311908newy (find matches)
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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LOOPS FOR THE SURF.-VCE CARS BEFORE TRACKS WERE LAID any one will not be greatly in excess of another. The same sengers. Several general directory signs to the differe it system of numbering will be in vogue as at the Brooklyn loops and the car lines will be conspicuously displayed. Bridge, the first loop on approaching the bridge being num- and at the entrance to each of the loops the loop numbcr bered one, and the others two. three, four, five, six, seven and the line operated will appear. In addition the loop
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and eight, respectively. As now proposed, the NostrandAvenue and Belt lines will be operated from Loop i, theBroadway and Reid Avenue lines from Loop 2, HamburgAvenue from Loop 3- Ralph Avenue from Loop 4, BushwickAvenue from I.oop 5, .Sumner Avenue and Tompkins Ave- numbcr and the lines operated will be conspicuously dis-played at the head of each pair of stairs inside the buildingproper, so tliat there will be no possibility of confusion.Several signs in foreign languages will also be posted forthe benefit of those patrons who do not read English. 594 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXXL No. 15. As in the case of the second lot of four loops installedat the New York end of the Brooklyn Bridge, the carswill stop on the near side of the loops to discharge passen-gers and then proceed and take on passengers at the farside. A gong at each of the loops under the control of adispatcher will be rung for starting cars, just as is nowdone at the Brooklyn Bridge. A very va-luable feature ofthe