. The Street railway journal . ibility of accidents at times when excur- ing, is reserved for baggage. The freight room is servedby two tracks, one along each side of the building. On theeast side a platform has been constructed to facilitate theunloading of freight from cars. Wagons are loaded andunloaded on the west side and at the north end of the build-ing. The arched doorways through which freight is handledare provided with rolling steel doors. The floor above the freight room, which contains the di-vision offices of the Indiana Union Traction Company, isreached by way of an outside stai
. The Street railway journal . ibility of accidents at times when excur- ing, is reserved for baggage. The freight room is servedby two tracks, one along each side of the building. On theeast side a platform has been constructed to facilitate theunloading of freight from cars. Wagons are loaded andunloaded on the west side and at the north end of the build-ing. The arched doorways through which freight is handledare provided with rolling steel doors. The floor above the freight room, which contains the di-vision offices of the Indiana Union Traction Company, isreached by way of an outside stairway leading from thepassageway between the train shed and the passenger stationbuilding. The whole south end of this floor is taken up bya reading room for trainmen and other employees. To theeast of a hallway leading to the reading room are the officesof the division passenger and ticket agent and the despatch-ed room. In the despatchers room provision has been madefor four despatchers telephone lines and four general St. ify. Journal Mulberry St. FIRST-FLOOR PLAN OF MUNCIE TERMINAL BUILDING sions are being run and on other occasions when large crowdsare being handled. The center line of the outside columns ofthe train shed is 9 ft. from the outside rail of the adjacenttrack, and the inside columns are 6 ft. away from the trackrail. Between the two centrally located tracks a concretepassageway 13 ft. 6 ins. wide extends the full length of thetrain shed. The pairs of trucks on either side of this passage-way are about 10 ft. between centers. Across the center ofthe train shed is a concrete walk 24 ft. wide. The remainderof the space between the tracks and rails is paved with brickresting on a cushion of sand and a bed of concrete. The freight depot, which is two stories high, measures 25ft. x 98 ft. The greater portion of the first floor is used as afreight room, but a room 14 ft. wide, extending the full widthof the building and adjacent to the passenger terminal buil
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