. The street railway review . TRAIN AT STATION. crossings, has been bought outright, in the same manneras the ordinary steam road. Whenever possible, also,the owners of adjoining property have been paid damages 264 ^^tuctl^iWa^J^VmV in advance, and they have signed agreements to relinquishall claims for damages incident to the construction andoperation of the road. The company has thus securedpractical immunity from what has on some elevated roadsproved to be a great source of expense. No other ele-vated road yet built in this country has pursued thispolicy of buying its entire right-of-way. T
. The street railway review . TRAIN AT STATION. crossings, has been bought outright, in the same manneras the ordinary steam road. Whenever possible, also,the owners of adjoining property have been paid damages 264 ^^tuctl^iWa^J^VmV in advance, and they have signed agreements to relinquishall claims for damages incident to the construction andoperation of the road. The company has thus securedpractical immunity from what has on some elevated roadsproved to be a great source of expense. No other ele-vated road yet built in this country has pursued thispolicy of buying its entire right-of-way. The actual work of construction was carried on bythe West Side Construction Company, a corporation hav-ing the same officers as the railroad, with E. W. Eckertas chief engineer. This company gave the contract forthe iron and steel of the structure to the Carnegie SteelCompany, of Pittsburg. AND TERRITORY. Starting at the down town terminus at Franklin street,half way between Van Buren and Jackson streets, near. ROLLING. LIFT BRIDGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION. what might be called the southwest corner of the heartof the cit}-, the road runs west about half a mile and turnssouth just east of Halsted street. In that half mile arecrowded a number of structures of the greatest engineer-ing interest. The terminus between Franklin and Mar-ket streets occupies the lower floors of two six-storybuildings. One of these buildings fronts on Franklinstreet and the other on Market. Exits are provided forboth streets. After leaving the terminal at Marketstreet, a four-track structure runs west one block to theriver, over which it crosses on a mammoth four-trackrolling lift bridge. Just west of this bridge comes a via-duct of two spans, over the Pennsylvania Railroad freightyards and the approach to the Union Depot train shed.
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