. The railway terminal problem of Chicago; a series of addresses before the City club, June third to tenth, 1913, dealing with the proposed re-organization of the railway terminals of Chicago, including all terminal proposals now before the City council committee on railway terminals .. . udy was followedand great quantities of statistics on this subject were collected. The head-house of the proposed Union Passenger Station is tobe located, as I said, between Canal street, Clinton street, Jacksonboulevard and Adams street on the identical spot provided in thebook of the Chicago Plan, the only
. The railway terminal problem of Chicago; a series of addresses before the City club, June third to tenth, 1913, dealing with the proposed re-organization of the railway terminals of Chicago, including all terminal proposals now before the City council committee on railway terminals .. . udy was followedand great quantities of statistics on this subject were collected. The head-house of the proposed Union Passenger Station is tobe located, as I said, between Canal street, Clinton street, Jacksonboulevard and Adams street on the identical spot provided in thebook of the Chicago Plan, the only difference being that the passen-ger tracks, instead of covering the entire width of the block andconverting east and west streets into tunnels, as called for in theChicago Plan, are left depressed below street level east of Canalstreet and the freight track approach for the Pennsylvania freightterminal stops at Van Buren street, thus improving upon the ChicagoPlan scheme by leaving open to the sky all streets between Van Burenand Madison. Interesting features of the plans are the two cab stands beneathCanal street and an entirely new street on railway propert;!^ betweenJackson and Adams, all connected up with ramps or inclined planes PLANS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA AND ASSOCIATED LINES. Plate 1. PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF THE PROPOSED PASSENGER STATION FOR THE UNION STATION COMPANY IN CHICAGO This station is intended for the lines entering the present Union Station. The head-house is locatedon the block bounded by Canal street, Jackson boulevard, Clinton and Adams streets, the mainentrance being on Canal street. Train sheds are to be placed below street level between Canal streetand the river. Interesting features are the two cab-stands below Canal street (not seen in the drawing) and a newstreet along the river entirely on railway property between Jackson boulevard and Adams street. Plans are by D. H. Bumham & Co., architects. for the rapid handling of commuters, the scheme being to separ
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