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Identifier:streetrailwayj271906newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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d sufficiently to prevent amonotonous appearance. One of the most complete stations is that at Libertyville onthe west extension from Lake Bluff. This station was built ata cost of $12,000. The rear portion is occupied by a rotaryconverter sub-station, while living rooms for the station agentare provided in the second story. Quite an elaborate station will be built at Zion City duringthe coming season, the foundations being already constructed.The station platform will have a total length of 252 ft. Thewaiting room, which will occupy the central portion of thebuilding, will be provided with an elaborate brick fire place ateach end. The ticket office will be located at the middle point in the accompanying reproduction. The enclosed portion meas-ures 24 ft. x 12 ft. At each end the canopy covers a platform24 ft. long. A platform 6 ft. wide extends in front of the en-closed room. The rafters over both the interior and exteriorportion are ceiled, and the interior walls of the waiting room
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NEW WAITING STATION AT GLENCO are finished in a similar manner. The shingle roof is painteddeep red, while the walls and posts are given a coach greencolor. A few stations are built with the waiting room at oneend. The canopy roofs over some of the narrower ones aresupported by a single line of posts, and while the architectureof the stations is of the same general style, slight changes aremade as the location of the station may require. A station ofrather odd shape is the one a short distance below Glenco, andshown in one of the accompanying illustrations. It is but about4 ft. wide, this narrow width being necessitated by the re-stricted right of way. In some instances similar stations are erected on each sideof the track. At other places only a platform and a canopy January 20, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 107 are erected opposite a station, and at some of the smaller placesthe platform alone is constructed. The stations are all lightedby incandescent lamps connected to the trolle

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  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:121
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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