Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-26
LEAVE HERE 1850
TONIGHT, GET TO
1ENOERLO|N El3
Aladdin Lamp-like SO-mile-an-
hour Electric Trains Begin
Running at Midnight.
SCHEDULE FROM PENNSY
STATION: OIL TRAINS DAILY
Harrison Is Terminal Where
Change Is Made from Steam
to Electric Locomotives.

At two minutes after midnight to-
night the first passenger-carrying cleo
trically propelled train will leave the
new and beautiful Pennsylvania sta
ton at T~hirty-second street and Sew
enth avenue. New York, and fifteen
minutes later dash into the Manhattan
transfer station at Harrison, where the
electric locomotive will be detached and
he train Joined to the steam-propelled
Perth Amboy accommodation, which
will have started from Jersey City.
Following the 1902 train from the
new station. the regular schedule will
go into effect. There will be sixty-one
trains west-bound and ffty-flve trains
e~ast-bound every twenty-four hours.
The first inbound train will arrive in
New York at 1850 a. m The train will
leave Philadelphia at 1912 tonight with
q number of officials on board.
The two-hour train service from Phil
adelphia to New York. which has long
been the wish and hope of the Penn
sylvania railroad, is now an accom-
plished fact. The electric locomotives
have a speed of eighty miles an hour,
which, however. will not be the speed
at which they will run.
The extension running east and west
from the New York station begins at
Harrison. Here Is located a transfer
yard for the huge electric locomotives
used in the tunnels. At his point
through passenger trains from South
ern II Western points will change
from steam to electric power.
The through trains for New York will
leave Harrison on rails crossing over
the old Pennsylvania tracks on a steel
and concrete bridge. A double-track
elevated line on embankments and
bridges extends across the Hackensack
meadows to Bergen Hill, that high en-
inence which is a continuation of the
rocky cliffs extending along the Hudson
river. In the western slope of this hill
are found the entrances to the tunnels
which lead under the North river into
the station In New York.
There are two passenger platforms
in Harrison Cor, as 1t will hereafter be
called. Manhattan Transfer, each be-
: ing % feet wide n LOO feet long.
The capacity is four trains In each d.
rection per platform. There will be
four main tracks and two inside shift
ing tracks.
Four Minutes to Change Power.
The time consumed in changing the
locomotives from steam to electric or
vice versa will take four minutes. For
the last ten days the test trains have
been running on schedule time. The
employees have been carefully in
structed for the last two months. The
motormen have had to pass a rigid
examination before they were permitted
TO run O train.
On the new short line the fare from
Newark will be fifty cents for a round
trip and twenty-seven cents for a one
way ticket. Fifty-trip tickets will cost
S11.50 and sixty-trip tickets $3.50. Pas
sengers having the regular thirty-cent
round-trip ticket car use the new line
by paying ten cents extra each way.
Newarkers may now go from the
Market street station of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad to Seventh avenue the
heart of the shopping n theatre dis
trict in New York, in twenty-three min
utes. 1t takes four minutes to go to
the Manhattan Transfer, four minutes
for the change of locomotives and hf-
teen minutes from Manhattan Transfer
through the tunnel under the North
river. a distance of eight n six-tenths
miles. The length of the TUNE Is two
and six-tenths miles.
1t is expected that in July the Say
brook place station will have been
built in this city. The trains that will
then leave Newark will use six of the
Pennsylvania main line tracks. This
division will be called the Hudson and
Manhattan road. 1t will have a ca
pacity of 112 cars.
Best Safety Devices in Existence.
The tunnel is equipped with special
safety device systems that are aid to
he the best in use anywhere. Accord
ing to railroad men the safety signals
make rear-end collisions impossible.
Should the motorman fail to see the
signals and go by a few fet, an auto
matte device shuts off the electricity
and sets the brakes. Only steel cars
will be run through the tunnels.
The cost of an electric locomotive is
$50, 000.$ The ordinary steam locomotives
cost between SIG, 900 and $751; 300
The New York station will be open
to the public at 8 o'clock tonight.
With the opening of this road the Penn
sylyania ferries to Twenty-third street
and the Brooklyn annex boats will be
discontinued.