. Electric railway journal . dard substations of thecompany contains a track connected with the main line so voted entirely to railroad purposes, but in Salem the sta-tion occupies part of the ground floor of a large officebuilding. At other stops the company has erected three differenttypes of stations. At the more important points it hasbuilt stations of its standard C or D type. The D 1054 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLI, No. 24. type of station is the smaller and consists of a single-storybuilding 61 ft. in length and 21 ft. to 28 ft. in width, witha front platform for passengers and an
. Electric railway journal . dard substations of thecompany contains a track connected with the main line so voted entirely to railroad purposes, but in Salem the sta-tion occupies part of the ground floor of a large officebuilding. At other stops the company has erected three differenttypes of stations. At the more important points it hasbuilt stations of its standard C or D type. The D 1054 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLI, No. 24. type of station is the smaller and consists of a single-storybuilding 61 ft. in length and 21 ft. to 28 ft. in width, witha front platform for passengers and an end platorm, 18 in. in length by 26 ft. 4 in. in width, used for unloadingthe freight. The station includes a waiting room about can be used as a part of a double track later. Each turn-out is 2000 ft. in length, and ultimately the company ex-pects to have one every 4 miles. In most cases the turn-out is located at a station, and a typical layout of this kindis illustrated on this page. At the east end of the station a. Oregon Electric Railway—Passenger Station at Albany 22 ft. by 15 ft., ticket offices, etc., about 12 ft. by 22 ft. anda freight room about 33 ft. by 22 ft. When the traffic atsuch a station increases sufficiently it is changed to a typeC station by extending the freight room and devoting apart of it to the baggage room. The freight room in a typeC station is 66 ft. in length and the baggage room is 15ft. in length. The other portions of the stations, .the wait-ing room and ticket office, are the same as in the smallerstation. branch freight house track leaves the main track, and afterpassing behind the station has a double end connection,one connection leading back of the main line and the otherparalleling the main line for a distance of 800 ft. or 900ft., passing in front of a series of warehouses. The sitesof these warehouses are leased to local shippers for a nomi-nal sum so that on them the shippers may erect their ownwarehouses. On the opposite side
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