. The Street railway journal . s line from a point just belowOcean A^iew. known as the Government Reservation, acrossthe country on the shores of Willoughby Bay to the Exposi-tion grounds, a distance of about 3!/> miles. This road isa double-track line with a 5-ft. 2-in. gage. The use of these two lines makes practically a four-trackline, and as the terminals in Norfolk are at different points,the crowd will be divided in loading. We have purchased about forty Brill semi-convertiblecars and forty open trailers, and these, with the cars wealready own, will enable us to run a motor car and tr
. The Street railway journal . s line from a point just belowOcean A^iew. known as the Government Reservation, acrossthe country on the shores of Willoughby Bay to the Exposi-tion grounds, a distance of about 3!/> miles. This road isa double-track line with a 5-ft. 2-in. gage. The use of these two lines makes practically a four-trackline, and as the terminals in Norfolk are at different points,the crowd will be divided in loading. We have purchased about forty Brill semi-convertiblecars and forty open trailers, and these, with the cars wealready own, will enable us to run a motor car and trailerover each line every 2^. minutes, and during rush hoursevery three-quarters of a minute. Counting 250 passen-gers to the train, this would mean a capacity of 12,000 anhour in each direction. The terminals at the Exposition grounds are shown on 594 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIX. No. 14. Profile along Algonquin Street Or Line f ^ ft.:r -^ 1 ^ Grade Level f r- ■^ - 2 - - Profile along Algonquin Street nd Line ; /. FIG. 2.—PLAN OF TERMINALS AND APPROACH OF ATLANTIC TERMINAL DIVISION the accompanying map, Fig. 2. The difference in the gageof the two lines necessitates two separate stations. The Atlantic Terminal cars will come in and unloadpassengers at the point C, continue around to the point D,where they will load, go on around the loop and return toNorfolk. The Ocean View division cars will come in onthe other side, unload at the point £ and proceed to thepoint F, where they will load and return around the loop toNorfolk, via Ocean View. As shown on the map there are three cross-overs in front of the loading platforms on eachside and frequent cross-overs at other points, to facilitateswitching cars for loading and unloading. On each side are three loading pens each no ft. pen is provided with two gates at about the pointsmarked x, and each gate has a turnstile and a ticket-chopper, one man to operate each ticket-chopper and oneman to operate each tu
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