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Title: Report on the re-arrangement and development of the steam railroad terminals of the city of Chicago : submitted to the Citizen's Terminal Plan Committee of Chicago
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Bion J. Arnold
Subjects: Railroad stations --Illinois --Chicago.
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Contributing Library: Paul V. Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Technology
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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ldings, thestraightening of the river, the more effective use of freightproperties, the development of river frontage and its freightfacilities, the elimination of unwieldy structures constitutingobstructions to city growth, and the assumption that the roadswill agTee to a reasonable program as affecting their presentholdings and groupings. But conspicuously divergent views seem to be held by thePennsylvania interests in their adherence to their present ad-vantageous locations irrespective of the expressed willingnessof the other roads to concur in a program of recedence, alsoby various proponents as to the comparative advantages ofloop and through vs. stub terminals, and the desirability of 140 Chicago Railroad Terminals. ERIE V ST.Olio ST carpoll *v wavhah st FULTON LVOIA LAKE RANDOLPH ST WAlOO ST WASMINSTON ST MCRIDIAM ST MADISON ST MONPOE AOAMS ST aOINCV ST JACKSON BV BOSTON AV. VIAN B JCEM ST. PEAPCE ST C0N60ESS ST. I HAPPISOM ST 5EeO «» ST^
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FIGURE 25. PRESENT PASSENGER STATIONS. Showing the location and means of approach to the six passenger stationsnow used in Chicago. Of these, three—the Union. Dearborn and Illinois Centralterminals—have about reached their capacity and must soon be replaced. Theremainder have sufhcient facilities for some time to come. one large terminal as distinguished from several independentterminals, also as to the location and development of freightfacilities, both house and yard, witli reference to the business Tekmixal Plaxs—Sectiox 8. 141 district. Team track space for the most part appears to havebeen neglected. Thus most of the plans agree in some features, but radicallydisagree in others. A short description and analysis of eachplan follows: Original Delano Plan—Fig. 26: Presented in 1904, by Mr.F. A. Delano, (then not engaged in railroad work), and sinceembodied in its principal features in the Chicago & AYesternIndiana R. E. proposals. The underlying feature was the align-men

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