Text Appearing Before Image: vate rights of way on the surface tothis terminal. This permits high-speed operation and rapid transit inthe true sense of the word. Formerly,however, the elevated trains werebrought into the terminal and un-loaded upon the level, under condi-tions met in surface-car operation,with all the attendant inconveniencesof loading and unloading. The new arrangement of tracks,which was worked out m rebuildingthe Culver terminal, is shown in theaccompanying yard plan. The ele-vated train service will be taken careof separately from the surface lines,as shown, the principal feature of thenew terminal being this provision forthe rapid handling of the crowds bythe elevated trains. Four terminaltracks are installed for this purpose, the two upon the east sidebeing intended for the Brighton Beach Route elevated trains,and the other two, to the west, for the express and local trainsoperating over the Fifth Avenue elevated division. As may benoted, convenient track connections are provided for easily Text Appearing After Image: FIG THE ELEVATED TRAIN LOADING AND EXIT GATES AT THE CULVER DEPOTAT CONEY ISLAND handling trains under very close headway; train movementswill be greatly facilitated by the very complete system of inter-locking switches and signals which has been installed to coverall elevated train movements throughout the yard. The arrangement of the elevated train terminal is shown inan accompanying photograph, Fig. 1. Elevated platforms, ofa height of 42 ins. above rail level, are provided on both sides June ii, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 885 of every terminal track, five in all, two of which are nsed for of the confusion by the separating of the two classes of trafficpassengers entering outgoing trains, while the other three pro- permits trains to be unloaded, loaded and sent out again withvide exits for incoming trains. In this way incoming pas- the least possible delay. It is, indeed, thought that this arrange-
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1904
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