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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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DIAGRAM SHOWING PROPOSED LOOPS OF THE ST. LOUIS RAPID TRANSIT COMPANY IN FRONT OF MAIN ENTRANCE TO WORLDS FAIR GROUNDS during the fair; the latter are indicated by dots. As will beseen there will be six of these, four on the northern boundarynearest the principal buildings, and two on the southernboundary. To the four northern loops access is had over fourroutes. The two southern loops are served by one route. The on maximum schedule 893 cars, and it is expected to increasethis to 1500 cars when necessary during the Exposition. It will be noticed on the map that the Wabash Railroad isbetween the principal terminal loop shown in the diagram andthe main entrance. To avoid a grade crossing at this point a March 5, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 347 MM
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348 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIV. No. 10. subway is to be built under the Wabash tracks, so that pas-sengers leaving the transit companys loop need not cross thesteam railroad tracks at grade. The plan below shows the arrangement of the Wabash Rail-road terminal at this same point, and also the location of thesubway just spoken of. Just south of the Wabash terminal,devoted to shuttle trains, is to be one of the loops of the Subur-ban Railway Company. The Suburban Railway Company willalso have three other loops reaching the north and west side ofthe grounds. From this it will be seen that the Wabash Rail-road is making extensive operations to handle through and localtraffic at the main entrance of the grounds. As compared toprevious Expositions, however, the steam railroad service will WEAR OF BEARINGS IN ELEVATED SERVICE Master mechanics of surface lines will look with envy on therecords of bearing wear made by motors in elevated service. Amotor car of the Metropolitan West Side

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