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Excerpt from The Edison Monthly: June, 1916 Railroad electrification is of more than passing significance to New Yorkers. To the substitution of electricity for steam this city owes its two great terminal developments. The wonderful Pennsylvania Station and the tubes connecting it with the South and West on one side and with Long Island and - via the Hell Gate Bridge - with New England on the other, would still be unrealized were it not for the application of electricity to railroad operation. In the case of the Grand Central Terminal, the illustration is not quite so sharply drawn. Although here the magnificent marble structure and the two levels of station platforms are hardly compatible with smoke-belch ing engines. With these two illustra tions must be considered the projected W'est Side improvement, wherein Riverside Drive is to be restored. And the lower sections of -the city are to be freed of their present street surface freight tracks. 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.