. Preliminary report, Chicago Railway Terminal Commission . 43 RAILROAD ROUTE AND TERMINAL MAP CHICAGO AND VICINITY OmcL or Chicaoo Railww Tchmihal CouuisanH Va. ISIS.,Scale Tentative Arrangement WITH THREE Terminal, Passenger Stations ALTERNATIVE PLAN To accompany report of Chicago Railway Terminal CommiUHn. 44 ALTERNATIVE PLAN FOR TWO STATIONS ON THE SOUTH SIDE. It may develop—after further consideration of the question ofrearrangement of passenger terminals for railroads using the stationseast of the south branch of the Chicago River—that it will, in the in-terests of the public and the rai
. Preliminary report, Chicago Railway Terminal Commission . 43 RAILROAD ROUTE AND TERMINAL MAP CHICAGO AND VICINITY OmcL or Chicaoo Railww Tchmihal CouuisanH Va. ISIS.,Scale Tentative Arrangement WITH THREE Terminal, Passenger Stations ALTERNATIVE PLAN To accompany report of Chicago Railway Terminal CommiUHn. 44 ALTERNATIVE PLAN FOR TWO STATIONS ON THE SOUTH SIDE. It may develop—after further consideration of the question ofrearrangement of passenger terminals for railroads using the stationseast of the south branch of the Chicago River—that it will, in the in-terests of the public and the railroads, be found desirable to groupthese railroads into two stations rather than one station. In this event it would be possible—with the Chicago Riverstraightened—to develop a passenger terminal on the site now occu-pied by the Grand Central Station, sufifiicient to take care of thepassenger traffic of a number of railroads. This development wouldnot interfere with the southward growth of the City and a plancould be worked out that would permit of satisfactory crossing forall of the east and west streets intersected. If this location were adopted, however, it would be desirable touse the existing rights of way of the Rock Island-Lake Shore orWestern Indiana as a route of entrance. Such an ent
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