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Release : 2017-10-28
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Download or read book The Underground Railway Construction Company written by . This book was released on 2017-10-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Underground Railway Construction Company: 120 Broadway, New-York Gentlemen. The underground railway construction company was organized for the purpose of building Subway, Elevated or Surface Railways in the city of new-york. It has taken the contract to construct the subway railways of the new-york District Railway. The Broadway division will be constructed from the bowling-green. Thence up Broadway to Union Square, to its junction with the Fourteenth street division, thence up Broadway to Madison Square, to the junction of its east and west divisions, and thence by way of Madison Avenue, to and under the Harlem River, to a junction with the main lines of railway which enter new-york from the north and east. The Fourteenth street and Twenty-third street divisions will commence at the west side of Ninth Avenue, and the east side of Second Avenue, respectively, thence running to the junction at Union and Madison Squares. The western division will commence at Madison Square, and follow the line of Broadway to Fifty-ninth street at Eighth Avenue, about thirteen miles in all. It also proposes to construct the railways of the new-york Under ground Railway Company and the Broadway Underground Connecting Rail way Company. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.