. The Street railway journal . a 134-minuteschedule. The Minneapolis cars enter from main track Bvia track 4 and proceed to the unloading platform, fromwhich they return either to Minneapolis over track 3 orenter the storage yard via ladder track 7. St. Paul carsare run around the St. Paul loop in a similar manner. Thismethod gives a continuous, uninterrupted stream of boththrough and local cars, all moving in the same directionon each loop; the traffic from each city is completely sepa-rated, an important feature in operating a terminal of thisnature. While under normal conditions the cars ar
. The Street railway journal . a 134-minuteschedule. The Minneapolis cars enter from main track Bvia track 4 and proceed to the unloading platform, fromwhich they return either to Minneapolis over track 3 orenter the storage yard via ladder track 7. St. Paul carsare run around the St. Paul loop in a similar manner. Thismethod gives a continuous, uninterrupted stream of boththrough and local cars, all moving in the same directionon each loop; the traffic from each city is completely sepa-rated, an important feature in operating a terminal of thisnature. While under normal conditions the cars are dis-patched as described above, the main line connections arepurposely arranged to permit any variation from the usualprocedure that an emergency may dictate. Two or three repair men and a dispatcher is all the oper-ating force necessary at the terminal. A repair car is alsomaintained in readiness for any emergency. Twin City standard cars are designed to load and unloadfrom the rear platform only. At the fair terminal, how-. CARS READY TO LEAVE THE MINNEAPOLIS TRACKS ever, special steps were provided so that passengers wereunloaded from both platforms at once. Ninety-five percent of the travel was either in one direction or the using both platforms for unloading or loading, a carcould be emptied or filled in practically one minute. The fair exodus reaches a maximum at 5 and 10 p. provide for these rush periods from thirty-five to fiftycars are stored on the Minneapolis tracks and from twenty-five to thirty on the St. Paul tracks. Cars are dispatchedfrom these storage tracks in order of their occurrence, sothat during the rush periods one-quarter-minute service ismaintained to Minneapolis and St. Paul. This amountsto 240 cars per hour to each city. Each car carries about100 passengers, which means that the maximum number ofpassengers moved per hour to each city is 24,000. This record was actually attained several times duringthe week, and the traffic was handled
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