E-text prepared by Ronald Holder, Diane Monico, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the numerous original illustrations. See 17569-h.htm or 17569-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/5/6/17569/17569-h/17569-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/5/6/17569/17569-h.zip) Interborough Rapid Transit THE NEW YORK SUBWAY Its Construction and Equipment [Illustration: OPERATING ROOM OF POWER HOUSE] [Illustration: (I.R.T. symbol)] New York Interborough Rapid Transit Company ANNO. DOMI. MCMIV Copyright, 1904, by Interborough Rapid Transit Co. New York Planned and Executed by The McGraw Publishing Co. [Illustration: (McGraw Publishing Company New York logo)] TABLE OF CONTENTS Page No. INTRODUCTION, 13 CHAPTER I. THE ROUTE OF THE ROAD--PASSENGER STATIONS AND TRACKS, 23 CHAPTER II. TYPES AND METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION, 37 CHAPTER III. POWER HOUSE BUILDING, 67 CHAPTER IV. POWER PLANT FROM COAL PILE TO SHAFTS OF ENGINES AND TURBINES, 77 CHAPTER V. SYSTEM OF ELECTRICAL SUPPLY, 91 CHAPTER VI. ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT OF CARS, 117 CHAPTER VII. LIGHTING SYSTEM FOR PASSENGER STATIONS AND TUNNEL, 121 CHAPTER VIII. ROLLING STOCK--CARS, TRUCKS, ETC., 125 CHAPTER IX. SIGNAL SYSTEM, 135 CHAPTER X. SUBWAY DRAINAGE, 145 CHAPTER XI. REPAIR AND INSPECTION SHED, 147 CHAPTER XII. SUB-CONTRACTORS, 151 INTERBOROUGH RAPID TRANSIT COMPANY _Directors_ August Belmont E. P. Bryan Andrew Freedman James Jourdan Gardiner M. Lane John B. McDonald Walter G. Oakman John Peirce Morton F. Plant William A. Read Alfred Skitt Cornelius Vanderbilt George W. Young _Executive Committee_ August Belmont Andrew Freedman James Jourdan Walter G. Oakman William A. Read Cornelius Vanderbilt _Officers_ August Belmont, President E. P. Bryan, Vice-president H. M. Fisher, Secretary D. W. McWilliams, Treasurer E. F. J. Gaynor, Auditor Frank Hedley, General Superintendent S. L. F. Deyo, Chief Engineer George W. Wickersham, General Counsel Chas. A. Gardiner, General Attorney DeLancey Nicoll, Associate Counsel Alfred A. Gardner, Associate Counsel _Engineering Staff_ S. L. F. Deyo, Chief Engineer. _Electrical Equipment_