. Electric railway journal . is unloadedand ready for delivery by 12 oclock noon. The reverse movement of these express trains is in asimilar way, except that the trains are made up by twoelectric switch engines on a third track on the St. Louisside of the McKinley Bridge approach. These two enginesnot only do this work but are used for switch service be-tween Granite City and St. Louis. This switching includessetting back freight cars into the freight yard under thewest bridge approach, setting coal cars to the retail coal-handling plant on the same side of the river and clearing 284 ELECTRIC
. Electric railway journal . is unloadedand ready for delivery by 12 oclock noon. The reverse movement of these express trains is in asimilar way, except that the trains are made up by twoelectric switch engines on a third track on the St. Louisside of the McKinley Bridge approach. These two enginesnot only do this work but are used for switch service be-tween Granite City and St. Louis. This switching includessetting back freight cars into the freight yard under thewest bridge approach, setting coal cars to the retail coal-handling plant on the same side of the river and clearing 284 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLI, No. 7. the freight yard of bulk freight loads, either setting themto the steam road connections or making up freight trainsin Granite City for the north. The average number of carson each nights shipping list approximates 120, including alarge number of interline cars to and from interurban train movements are under the generalsupervision of a terminal trainmaster. His jurisdiction. St. Louis Freight Terminal—Transfer Platform and Num-bers on Cars not only extends over movements in St. Louis but on theeast side of the river as far north as the Granite Citybelt line. ST. LOUIS TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT ORGANIZATION The general agent whose authority extends over the Illi-nois Traction Systems lines south of Springfield hascharge of all freight and express traffic matters at the terminal. Reporting to him are the city passengeragent, the local agent and the commercial agent. Theduties of the city passenger agent include the stimulatingof the passenger traffic. He keeps in personal touch withthe different clubs, societies and social organizations so thathe will be advised in advance of unusual passenger trafficmovements. By keeping informed as to movements of vari-ous theatrical troupes he is enabled to procure a large por-tion of this business along the Illinois Traction lines. Acommutation fare book permits the passenger traffic age
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