. The Street railway journal . iedby the Philadelphia & West Chester Trac-tion Company, are shown on the views onpages 326 and 327. In this section thereare five terminal tracks with broad cementplatforms between each track. Each plat-form is divided for its entire length intotwo sections by means of an ornamentaliron fence, one side of each platform ineach case being for unloading passengersand the other for loading the ends of the platforms are orna-mental gates, and passengers will leave and enter theunloading and loading platforms in about the same man-ner as is now usually d
. The Street railway journal . iedby the Philadelphia & West Chester Trac-tion Company, are shown on the views onpages 326 and 327. In this section thereare five terminal tracks with broad cementplatforms between each track. Each plat-form is divided for its entire length intotwo sections by means of an ornamentaliron fence, one side of each platform ineach case being for unloading passengersand the other for loading the ends of the platforms are orna-mental gates, and passengers will leave and enter theunloading and loading platforms in about the same man-ner as is now usually done at all large steam rail-road terminals. From the train shed of the Phila-delphia & West Chester Traction Company passengerswill walk through a waiting room, and will then descendby steps to the tracks of the elevated road, which are on alower level. The entrance tracks to the train shed are shownon the drawing, and all movements of trains will be controlledby an elaborate system of interlocking switches and signals. TYPICAL WAY STATION ON THE CLIFTON DIVISION BEFORE LANDSCAPEWORK OR APPROACHES HAD BEEN DONE installed by the United Switch & Signal Company. Themovements will be made from a signal tower erected in theyards just outside the train shed. ♦-♦-» The bottom has dropped out of the roadbed of the Toledo& Chicago Interurban Railroad between Auburn, Ind., andGarrett. At that point the tracks cross an old peat bed, andon Aug. 15 the track began to sink, and subsequently sankout of sight. From soundings made, 38 ft. of water coversthe roadbed and tracks. Passenger and express traffic is nowbeing transferred at Auburn. Engineers are devising plansto bridge the chasm until it can be filled in. Other railwaycompanies experience similar troubles in Xorthern Indiana. September i, igo6.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 33i STREET RAILWAY ADVERTISING BY GEORGE SABIN BRUSH The subject of advertising to increase the business of streetrailways is receiving much more attention then eve
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