. Electric railway journal . n all trains passingthe station. Special attention was given in the design tothe end windows, the cornice and the facade of the build-ing, the central panel and trimmings being particularly at-tractive. The station capacity has been increased from8100 kw to kw. FOREST HILLS EXTENSION AND EGLESTON SQUARE The Forest Hills extension has been built with but onelocal station, in order to accommodate the through trafficfrom the center of Boston to the terminus of the elevatedstructure on the edge of the West Roxbury district. A spe-cial feature of the structure is
. Electric railway journal . n all trains passingthe station. Special attention was given in the design tothe end windows, the cornice and the facade of the build-ing, the central panel and trimmings being particularly at-tractive. The station capacity has been increased from8100 kw to kw. FOREST HILLS EXTENSION AND EGLESTON SQUARE The Forest Hills extension has been built with but onelocal station, in order to accommodate the through trafficfrom the center of Boston to the terminus of the elevatedstructure on the edge of the West Roxbury district. A spe-cial feature of the structure is the use of reinforced con-crete posts and sheathing where it crosses the Boston parksystem near Forest Hills Square. A view is shown of theconstruction at the Arborway, where the double-track lineis carried on a single row of massive posts encased in con-crete and supported on foundations 11 ft. 6 in. square and12 ft. deep. The structure proper here is of deck con-struction with steel plate cross and longitudinal girders as. Boston Elevated Extensions—The New Wing of theLincoln Power Station elsewhere on the extension; but the sides and under por-tion are sheathed with concrete reinforced in the mannershown in the half-tone view on the opposite page. A view is also shown of the Egleston Square station,which is of the side platform type and is unique in being December 18, 1909.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL the first Boston station to use reinforced concrete for plat-forms, galleries and stair landings. The reinforcementextends both longitudinally and transversely. The ForestHills station is also to be of the two-platform type, andwill be equipped with escalators and stairways connectingthe surface and elevated lines. Outward-bound trains willstop at a platform 20 ft. wide, and after the cars have beenemptied the train will proceed to a cross-over just beyondthe station and return to receive inward passengers at thesecond platform of the station. The latter has been made30 ft. wi
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