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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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his pleasant open structure,affording the men a pleasant resting and recreation place. Light running repairs will be provided for by an elevatedtrack and small repair shop just above the signal tower. Thetrack will be raised upon substantial concrete piers, locatedabout 12 ft. between centers, which will bring the rail level4 ft. above the ground. This provides the same repair facilitiesthat would be obtained by the use of pits, and the trucks are,moreover, rendered much more accessible. The repair shopwill contain only such tools as are necessary for light repairwork. THE SURFACE CAR TERMINAL Elaborate provision has also been made for the handling ofthe heavy surface car traffic. The former track arrangementat the Culver terminal, involving loops around which the sur-face cars were turned in discharging and taking on passengers,has been retained, as may be seen by reference to the trackdiagram (Fig. 5), but an important improvement has been June ii, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 887
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FIG. G.—LOOKING NORTH FROM THE ELEVATED TRAIN TERMINAL TRACKS, SHOWING CENTRAL SWITCH AND SIGNAL TOWER AND THE OPERATING PIPE LINES added to this department of the service by the addition of a num-ber of storage tracks in the yard above. The surface cars enterthe yard from the upper end, passing down at the extremeright upon an open lead track, directing them to any one of thefive loops; access is given, also, at a point midway down the the result of past experience with the heavy crowds at thisterminal. It has been found that with the heavy incomingcrowds in the early evening and at other times of heavy traffic,

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