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Title: Report on railroad grade crossing elimination and passenger and freight terminals in Los Angeles
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: California Public Utilities Commission
Subjects: Railroad crossings Railroad stations
Publisher: (Sacramento
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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r to the arrangement shown on Fig. 45. A double track bridge, with double track approaches, is estimated tocost $416,9,36, based on use of the existing structure. Fig. 45 shows an arrangement which may be used in case a union pas-senger terminal is located at the Santa Fe site. As in all plans for a bridgeat this site, no highway is provided, and the existing girders are used.They are shown erected on new piers north of. and along side the old ones. For the express tracks, a reinforced concrete bridge is shown. Becauseof a bend in the river at this point, the piers can be turned somewhat toreduce the amount of skew of the spans, and. as the cross-section of theriver is reduced by only one pier at a time, more and shorter spans can beused than would be practicable for a right-angle crossing. Fig. 46 was made to show the connections in case the SouthernPacific site should be adopted for a union passenger station, withconnections as proposed by the Southern Pacific and the Salt Lake. For
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