The New York Subway, Its Construction and Equipment
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Beneath New York's crowded streets, building a railway meant working around sewers, water mains, cables, vaults and tall buildings. This technical account by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company describes the subway in Manhattan and the Bronx, placing its engineering alongside the financial and legal obstacles that confronted the project. The introduction explains the city's ownership of the railway and contrasts the finished road with the doubts surrounding its construction.
The chapters cover routes, passenger stations, tracks, construction methods, electrical supply, cars, signals and drainage. Detailed passages take readers into the power house, where valves isolate sections of steam piping and reused heat helps warm water for the boilers. These practical descriptions make the volume useful for readers interested in transport history and the machinery behind urban railways, with attention to the individual systems that keep a large public service running.
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- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 174
- Language
- English
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- Engineering
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