. Report on railroad grade crossing elimination and passenger and freight terminals in Los Angeles . ric in I>os Angeles. The essential data regarding- this station follows: PRINCIPAL CHARACTERISTICS—PACIFIC ELECTRIC FREIGHT STATION Outbound Inbound Area, house platform 2,032 4,412 shed and platform 3,600 Total 29,576 21 S3 192 13 14 113 226 Grand Total Cars handled, average day No. Car spot capacity No. Tons handled, average day tons Area per ton, average day sq. ft. Team front per ton. average day feet It will be noted that these facilities
. Report on railroad grade crossing elimination and passenger and freight terminals in Los Angeles . ric in I>os Angeles. The essential data regarding- this station follows: PRINCIPAL CHARACTERISTICS—PACIFIC ELECTRIC FREIGHT STATION Outbound Inbound Area, house platform 2,032 4,412 shed and platform 3,600 Total 29,576 21 S3 192 13 14 113 226 Grand Total Cars handled, average day No. Car spot capacity No. Tons handled, average day tons Area per ton, average day sq. ft. Team front per ton. average day feet It will be noted that these facilities are fairly adequate for the amountof present business. It may also be stated that the Pacific Electric hasplans for changing the location of this station, the new site being on groundnow owned and occupied by shop buildings. This improvement is intendedto include the whole arrangement of the team tracks and, in fact, the wholeyard. Recommendations We recommend that the Southern Pacific, Santa Fc and Pacific Flectricjoin in the construction and operation of a consolidated freight station at the. Present Im become a part is (liscnssed more in detail later. Under these conditions, tlie present Southern Pacific freight station sitewill be nsed as a team yard, the existing Salt Lake freight station site willbe cleared and u^ed in part as a team yard (it may be here noted that therecommended depression and expansion of the tracks along the east bankinterferes to some extent with this freight station), and the Pacific Electricfreight station will be abandoned. Team Yards Certain classes of freight, principally carloads, destined for consigneeswithout spur track facilities, and large and heavy packages, such as machinery,are commonly unloaded, or loaded, directly from cars to dravs. withoutbeing handled in the frei.^ht station, at team tracks alongside good drive-ways, although at one or more points a crane is provided. It is .-idvantageousto ha\-c at least one vard adj
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