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General Remarks. The system of elevated railroads, which carry trains of cars run by electricity, now consists of four main double-track lines, and a few short branches. All come together at the southern extremity of the island in a terminal station at South Ferry alongside the Battery. Two lines are on the West Side and two on the East, and all reach to the Harlem River, one (the `Suburban') continuing beyond, through to Fordham. These trains run at intervals of two or three minutes (or even less, durinf the busiest hours of morning and evening) all the day and evening; and from midnight to sunrise the intervals between trains are not more than five minutes. Strangers should be careful to note the sign at the foot of the station-stairs which informs them whether that station is for `up-town' or `downtown' trains. |
New York Elevated Railroad
