. The street railway review . r wanted. The terminal loop plan (Fig. 9) adopted for the Char! Ex-position combined one large radius loop with long straight approachand exit tracks. Passengers were discharged at one side of the loopand Ixiarded cars at the other side. No spur tracks were providedfor storage purposes but as the exposition line was a double-trackline built for the exclusive purpose of handling the expositiontraffic it was possible to use the terminal loop itself for storage inaiUicipation of heavy homeward movements. That is, cars could bebanked on the loop and brought up t
. The street railway review . r wanted. The terminal loop plan (Fig. 9) adopted for the Char! Ex-position combined one large radius loop with long straight approachand exit tracks. Passengers were discharged at one side of the loopand Ixiarded cars at the other side. No spur tracks were providedfor storage purposes but as the exposition line was a double-trackline built for the exclusive purpose of handling the expositiontraffic it was possible to use the terminal loop itself for storage inaiUicipation of heavy homeward movements. That is, cars could bebanked on the loop and brought up to the loading phi form ns thetraffic demanded. This idea is applicable to park tcrminaU wherethe park is on a separate line devoted exclusively to park trafficand where there is plenty of ground room available for terminalfacilities. It is hardly applicable if the terminal is to be used alsoby cars intended to serve the regular street traffic, as the congestionof cars on the loop will prevent regular cars from getting away on. Fill. 11-AMHERST TERMINAL, PAN ALETICAN EXPOSITION. cars, and thus relieving the hard pull on the power house when thepark travel is the heaviest. The suggestion is a particularly goodone inasmuch as visitors to a park usually come in comparativelysmall lots but they frequently all want to leave at the same time,so that the arriving cars which have to mount the up-grade are notusually so heavily loaded as the departing certain conditions it may be considered advisable to run schedule time and it would necessitate sending cars away from Ihcpark only partially filled in order to gel the regular cars out. In Figs. 10 and it are shown the two general forms of terminalsat the Exposition in Buflfalo two years ago. Jhescare reproduced here for the benefit of those who may be called upon10 design terminals for handling excessively large crowds as forexpositions, fairs, or similar enterprises. As will be seoii. Ihc main May 20, 1903.] STRE
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