. The Street railway journal . Slip Sliiol PLAN OF TURN-TABLE AND TRACKS. ALL FOUR LOADINGTRACKS ARE PROVIDED WITH ENTRANCE CURVES 494 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIX. No. 12. is in place for taking or receiving cars. A latch lever alsohad to be placed near the motor convenient for the operatorThis is simply a bell crank, the bottom of which rests in arecess on the outside of the table. The special work used is bolted directly to plate overthe I-beams that cross one another in the construction ofthe table proper; the centerpiece is made up principally of HANDLING TRAFFIC AT TH
. The Street railway journal . Slip Sliiol PLAN OF TURN-TABLE AND TRACKS. ALL FOUR LOADINGTRACKS ARE PROVIDED WITH ENTRANCE CURVES 494 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIX. No. 12. is in place for taking or receiving cars. A latch lever alsohad to be placed near the motor convenient for the operatorThis is simply a bell crank, the bottom of which rests in arecess on the outside of the table. The special work used is bolted directly to plate overthe I-beams that cross one another in the construction ofthe table proper; the centerpiece is made up principally of HANDLING TRAFFIC AT THE HOT SPRINGS RACES. LOADING PLATFORM AND CARS READY FOR THE RACE-TRACK CROWD The limited number of cars owned by the Hot SpringsStreet Railroad, together with the fact that all those peopleattending the races want to go to the grounds and return tothe city at practically the same time, necessitated the adop-tion of some unusual methods in handling passengers. At the race track there is a load-ing yard 800 ft. long by about125 ft. wide, enclosed in a picketfence 8 ft. high. At one end is built aloading shed 180 ft. long and 35 , and from which several gates giveentrance to the grounds. The loadingyards contain storage tracks for twenty-five cars. All the cars going to theraces are put in special service and nofares are collected on them. Instead,the fares are collected as the passengersgo through the gates leading into thegrounds. At the termination of theraces about twenty-five cars are waitingin the loading yard and fares are col-lected as passengers pass through thegates. Four cars are drawn up
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