. Report on railroad grade crossing elimination and passenger and freight terminals in Los Angeles . inutes at a time. North of Seventh Street the lad-der track descends on rather a steep grade for four or five hundred feet,which is a very objectionable feature because of the amount of damagedone to cars by too heavy collision when switching them on this steepgrade. The Salt Lake also has a small yard south of the City near Hobart,commonly called East Yard, which is at present used only for storage. This yard has about 3 miles of track and will hold 186 freight reach the Pacific Elec
. Report on railroad grade crossing elimination and passenger and freight terminals in Los Angeles . inutes at a time. North of Seventh Street the lad-der track descends on rather a steep grade for four or five hundred feet,which is a very objectionable feature because of the amount of damagedone to cars by too heavy collision when switching them on this steepgrade. The Salt Lake also has a small yard south of the City near Hobart,commonly called East Yard, which is at present used only for storage. This yard has about 3 miles of track and will hold 186 freight reach the Pacific Electric yard in two w-ays: (1) those cars originat-ing on the lines south and west of the City are hauled directly into the yardby Pacific Electric power; (2) cars originating on the eastern lines are de-livered to the Southern Pacific at the Macy Street transfer; are hauled alongAlameda Street and set on one of the Pacific Electric transfers usually atEighth and Alameda Streets. Cars destined for points on the east lines are Present Fkhkiht Traific and IvxcimtiesPacific Electric Yard Operalion 417. Flfci. 143. pacific: FKUK^HT VAHU ^Vhite rows of paper are standing at tite end of tht- freiglit on the left. Thelarge brick buildings in the background are sliop buildings; in back of these are tlieconcrete buildings of tlic Los Angeles Inion Terminal. Eighth Street is in tlie foreground. transferred to tlie Sniitliern Iacilic at Clenient Juiioticm. hauled 1)_\- it alniigAlameda Street to Macy Street transfer and thence tn their destination overPacific Electric rails. Switching business in Angeles is handled by three day crews andthree night crews; a day and a night crew, which may be classed as anoutside crew, working south of Amoca Tower as far out as hriiitland, onthe \\hittier line, and ;is far as Slauson Axciuu- on the I-ong Reach lineand twii inside crews, which work north of the .\moca Tower (AmocaTower is approximately at Long lleach .\\cnue ami Twenty-six
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