. The street railway review . ing and a transfer station theterminal facilities will be greatly improved both for the com-pany and its patrons. The cars on the Ogdcn avenue line of the W( st Chi: ago Stie tRailroad Company have a headway of two minutts diirng th >busy portion of the day; those of the Ogdcn Street RailwayCompany run on a schedule of seven minutes, and those of theChicago General about the same. The pavilion, to be constructedin the spring, will not only have waiting rooms but provisionwill be made for refreshment and lunch rooms for which con-cessions will be let. The track
. The street railway review . ing and a transfer station theterminal facilities will be greatly improved both for the com-pany and its patrons. The cars on the Ogdcn avenue line of the W( st Chi: ago Stie tRailroad Company have a headway of two minutts diirng th >busy portion of the day; those of the Ogdcn Street RailwayCompany run on a schedule of seven minutes, and those of theChicago General about the same. The pavilion, to be constructedin the spring, will not only have waiting rooms but provisionwill be made for refreshment and lunch rooms for which con-cessions will be let. The track work required for the loop involved an outlay of about . The I>aige Iron Works, of Cliicago, took the con-tract for the special work and has been very successful in car-rying it out. The two diagrams show the gem-ral arrangementof the curves. The curves to the West Chicago car barns arealso shown in Fig. 1. In Fig. 2 the dotted lines indicate thestraight tra<k laid liy tlie track department of tlie West Chicago. W0£}2ird. Jfo. ^iSS Cross Tons to Ue Mile. FIG. 3—RAIL FOR SPECIAI, WORK. Company, and the full lines represent the special work con-structed by the Paige Iron Works. For the straight track work a So-lb. grooved rail wasused. A grooved rail, of the proportion and size shown in Fig. 3and made by the Cambria Iron Works, was used for the sp?cialwork. The curves are three centered with radii of 8ii and 5,>
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