. Preliminary report, Chicago Railway Terminal Commission . Street. The existing crossing of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southernand Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific with the Western Indiana tracksis also eliminated, and the occupation by railroad terminals is re-stricted to the territory west of Clark Street. In this arrangement the existing freight house locations westof Clark Street and north of Twelfth Street are maintained, andthe possibililties of future locations in this territory are of Twelfth Street the territory is occupied by team tracks, thecontrolling principle in this la
. Preliminary report, Chicago Railway Terminal Commission . Street. The existing crossing of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southernand Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific with the Western Indiana tracksis also eliminated, and the occupation by railroad terminals is re-stricted to the territory west of Clark Street. In this arrangement the existing freight house locations westof Clark Street and north of Twelfth Street are maintained, andthe possibililties of future locations in this territory are of Twelfth Street the territory is occupied by team tracks, thecontrolling principle in this layout being that the houses would onlybe used for inbound freight and that all outbound freight would beloaded directly into cars from team tracks and rehandled at an outerL. C. L. clearing house. In this layout existing freight house locations are shown in solidblack rectangles; possible additional houses in open rectangles. The capacity of this layout is: House tracks; 1,524 cars, standing capacity. Team tracks; 2,650 cars, standing capacity. 50. TWENTY SECOND SI TENunve Plan nn REABRANGLMENT OP FREIGHT TERMINALS SCHEME WZ J)> accompany npcrt d Chicago KaiKs/ Ikrminal Coonnisian II II I 51 Scheme No. 3—Shown on Plate No. 9. In this scheme the St. Charles Air Line is removed and theapproach to the Illinois Central Railroad from the west is shownsouth of Eighteenth Street. This permits a complete separation ofrailroad grade crossings in the territory and makes possible theopening up of Fourteenth Street, Sixteenth Street and EighteenthStreet on satisfactory grades. Sherman Street, Fifth Avenue and Franklin Street are shownopened up continuously through the district. Freight houses arelocated in the territory between Clark Street and the River, and theterritory between Clark Street and State Street is shown free ofrailroad occupation. As will be seen from the plate, house tracks are shown in setsof four on the lower level, with longitudinal platforms between eachset serving
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