. Electric railway journal . Scale is = 10 PACIFIC ELECTRIC TERMINAL—MAIN FLOOR PLAN OF TERMINAL August 25, 1917] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 309 and continue to Main Street. The stub tracks are alsoused for crippled cars, occasional specials, etc. Again, other trains come in from the rear over TrackNo. 7, unloading at E, F or G, the discharged passen-gers using a ramp to reach the mezzanine concourseunderneath the rear waiting room, whereupon theyuse a second ramp to get into the main waiting the meantime the train proceeds to the loadingplatform at gate H. While inbound trains which com
. Electric railway journal . Scale is = 10 PACIFIC ELECTRIC TERMINAL—MAIN FLOOR PLAN OF TERMINAL August 25, 1917] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 309 and continue to Main Street. The stub tracks are alsoused for crippled cars, occasional specials, etc. Again, other trains come in from the rear over TrackNo. 7, unloading at E, F or G, the discharged passen-gers using a ramp to reach the mezzanine concourseunderneath the rear waiting room, whereupon theyuse a second ramp to get into the main waiting the meantime the train proceeds to the loadingplatform at gate H. While inbound trains which come from San PedroStreet over track No. 7 have designated berths, thesemay be changed by the towerman according to the exi-. PACIFIC ELECTRIC TERMINAL LOADING AND UNLOADING PLATFORMS gencies of the moment. Thus, a train switched to trackNo. 6 may unload at berth E or F and load at berthM or K. Entrance to the latter platform is made overloading viaduct N over Los Angeles Street from themain gates of the upper waiting room. Trains sent to track No. 5 unload at R, where the dis-charged passengers descend a ramp into the mezzanineconcourse via bridge P over Los Angeles Street. Pas-sengers boarding these trains use platform K or M,reached by viaduct N from the rear main waiting on track No. 4 unload at R and load at S. The average time saved per train through the newterminal rerouting is two minutes. Train Control and Annunciator Systems All train movements are controlled by a towermanthrough an electro-pneumatic interlocking plant of theUnion Switch Company, operated at 110 volts 50 twenty-three lever, vertical, roller-type machine isused. The twenty signals are of the three-indicationcolo
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