. Book of the Royal blue . -, betweenloth and 18th and Chapline and Marketstreets, and is approached by the tracks overa steel viaduct nearly 1,000 feet Ions, this\iaduct spanning Wheeling Creek andChapline and .Market streets at either endof the building, and extending beyond thestation several hundred feet to the streetgrade at EofI Street. \\hen completed, the entire new layoutat Wheeling will include passenger station. the prominence gi\en the three large er-trances on the principal front. The are of brick, with granite base, to hr-:-stor\ window sill course, and Bedford
. Book of the Royal blue . -, betweenloth and 18th and Chapline and Marketstreets, and is approached by the tracks overa steel viaduct nearly 1,000 feet Ions, this\iaduct spanning Wheeling Creek andChapline and .Market streets at either endof the building, and extending beyond thestation several hundred feet to the streetgrade at EofI Street. \\hen completed, the entire new layoutat Wheeling will include passenger station. the prominence gi\en the three large er-trances on the principal front. The are of brick, with granite base, to hr-:-stor\ window sill course, and Bedford facing to second lloor line. Thesecond and third stor>- walls are faced withgenuine Harvard hand-made red brickand trimmed with limestone and terra terra cotta matching the limestone incolor and finish. The roof is covered withgreen-glazed terra cona tiles. The first floor construction b entirelv. MAlS WArnNG-ROOM. LOOKING TOW.\RD THE TRArS $HEU6 Steel \iaduct, power plant, signal tower andbridge, umbrella sheds, freight and coachyards and freight houses. Of this layoutall is now practically completed, except thefreight houses, and these will be completed assoon as other pans of the work will passenger station is an entirely fire-proof building, about •^0 feet wide by 250feet long, and three stories high. It is de-signed in an .Americanized French Renais-sance style of architecture, and while sen ingav an office building as well as a station, thestation idea has bft-ri t-mnbj^ of reinforced concrete to avoid damage tothe construction from high water, .\bo\ethe first riiHjr all framing of rii>ors and roofis of steel, with reinforced concrete slabconstruction. .\ll interior partitions are ofporous, hollow terra cotta tile. The building is heated by steam andlighted by electricity, and four electricelevators are prov idcd. one each for baggageand
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