. The Street railway journal . -VIEW FROM BRIDGE, LOOKING WEST, SHOWING INTERLOCKING TOWER June 6, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 819 house for the elevated motor cars. The tracks in this house from the highway as well as a signal to Aurora, Elgin &have pits. The floors are all concrete. Over one end of this Chicago cars. inspection house is a second floor, where there is a lounging Fig. 4 is a view from the interlocking tower, showing both. FIGS, i AND 5.—TRANSFER DEPOTS AND INSPECTION HOUSE AT TERMINAL room and lockers for the elevated employees and an office forthe man in charge of this div
. The Street railway journal . -VIEW FROM BRIDGE, LOOKING WEST, SHOWING INTERLOCKING TOWER June 6, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 819 house for the elevated motor cars. The tracks in this house from the highway as well as a signal to Aurora, Elgin &have pits. The floors are all concrete. Over one end of this Chicago cars. inspection house is a second floor, where there is a lounging Fig. 4 is a view from the interlocking tower, showing both. FIGS, i AND 5.—TRANSFER DEPOTS AND INSPECTION HOUSE AT TERMINAL room and lockers for the elevated employees and an office forthe man in charge of this division of the elevated. South ofthe transfer depot is the storage yard for the elevated switching for the entire terminal is done at an interlockingtower, equipped by the Union Switch & Signal Company. Fig. 2 is a view looking toward the terminalyard from Fifty-Second Avenue, showing twoAurora, Elgin & Chicago cars, one dischargingpassengers into the transfer station at theright, and another car of the same line receiv-ing passengers from the transfer station atthe left. As seen in Fig. 2 a bridge over the Aurora,Elgin & Chicago tracks is provided so thatconductors and motormen, in going from oneside of the terminal to the other, need not crossthe yards in which there is a live third rail. Ifthey were obliged to cross on the surface therewould also be the liability that cars would bestanding in the way. Fig. 3 i
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