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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ines to reach the SoiUh Side Elevated and the ChicagoCity lines to go to the business districts. There are three suburban systems in the southern part of thecity, the Calumet, the South Chicago City and the Chicago Trac-tion (the storage battery road), and the Chicago City runs as farsouth as 79th street. One northern terminal of the suburban lines higher rates are cliarged than on the electric cars. Where the Alley L crosses the elevated tracks of the Illinois Cen-tral at 63d street it was necessary to raise the structure to 30 ftabove the street grade, and this makes a station of unusual heightat Stony Island avenue. H. M. Sloan, general manager of the Cal-umet Electric Street Railway Company, decided that a terminal sta-tion at 63d street would be a great convenience to the patrons of hisroad and would induce a corresponding increase in traffic. Planswere carefully made for a station and it is now nearing completion. The desired terminal being across the street from the site of the
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FIG. 2—FIRST FLOOR PLAN. (^lJl£d%\lM^SVACW 53 Worlds Fair, Uic localily is filled wilii larm- IjiiildiiiKS. and to gutto the station it was necessary to purchase a three-story brick build-inK with a froiilaKc of yo (t. on 6jd street and 150 ft. (jn Slony Is-land avenue, a general view of which is given in lig. 1. ()ii theground floor a passageway was cut through the Iniildlng and a loopconstructed, as may be seen in the first Moor plan, lig. j. Ilicloop is entirely under cover and (jccupies the s;)ace shown up to thesccoikI floor. All cars slop and discharge passengers in front of theswinging doors leading into the large waiting room. This is aliaiidsrinie. commodious apartment, a view of the interior lieingsliovvM ill Iig. 3. The trolley above the loop, instead of being fast-ened to the trough on the ceiling by hangers, was suspended byspan wires, which cfTectually prevents the noise of the runningtrolley from being transmitted to other parts of the building. In the waiting room a

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