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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
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on, butwe believe that a measure of competitive service will return regardless ofwhether the railroads go back to private ownership, as before the war, orcontinue under some form of Federal control. We believe that the local trains (i. e. trains that run less than 100 miles)will probably disappear in the next ten or twenty years. This is particularlyevident from Fig. 130. Electrification, we are confident, will play a large part in future railroad-ing in the vicinity of Los Angeles. The railroads running o\er hea\y grades,which control the tonnage of trains, on all through lines out of Los Angeles,will probably be electrified on account of shortage and cost of fuel oil and onaccount of the disinclination to return to coal, and the more economical elec-trical operatiiin will i)robably require that this measure be adopted. Thiswill include all switching service in Los Angeles. This prospect also has animportant bearing on freight traffic. Dksikabii.itv of Union Passknc.ku Tiirminai. 265
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IK;. !I3. •;i.K>i<) ri\ I One type o£ locomotive useil by the Pacific Electric. Tliis form of power lias manyadvantages over tlie steam locomotive and some day will probably be used exclusivelyfor switching in Los Angeles. \\ itli all these conditions before us. we arc led lo believe that the nextten years will probably see 105 daily through trains; the number of throughtrains at the end of the second decade will be abnut HO and the local trainswill disappear. In the making of any plans, therefore, facilities should bepro\ided capable of an ultimate development in the handling of trains to atleast 140 trains per day. The number of cars in a passenger train im December 31. 1917, variedfrom 2 cars in some of the local trains to 12 or 13 cars in the through trains,the a\erage being aljout 5A cars per train. In Chicago, in 1913. throughtrains averaged 6.5 cars per train; suburban trains, 4.3 cars; and the average5.4 cars, as in Los Angeles. An estimate for the

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