Text Appearing Before Image: at Wheaton, POCKET TRACKS ON METROPOLITAN ELEVATED A new interlocking plant controlling two sets of diamondcrossovers has just been put into service at St. LouisAvenue on the Metropolitan elevated structure. This newplant is installed so that the trains of the Aurora, Elgin &Chicago Railway, which overtake the slower Metropolitantrains midway between the Marshfield Avenue junction onthe elevated structure and the Fifty-second Avenue ter-minal, may be passed around the Metropolitan trains whilethe elevated trains are standing at the St. Louis Avenueplatform. Ordinarily an interurban train leaving FifthAvenue overtakes and passes a Metropolitan train at Marsh-field junction, where the four-track division of the Metro-politan Elevated is subdivided into three double-trackdivisions. After loading at Marshfield Avenue the inter-urban trains then run westward on the Garfield Parkdouble-track structure. The running time of these trains,however, is so much faster than that of the elevated Text Appearing After Image: Aurora, Elgin & Chicago—One of Two Diamond Cross-Overs for Pocket Tracks at St. Louis Avenue are installed in a three-story brick building, formerly usedas a hotel, but since re-equipped for an office building. Because of the rapidly increasing traffic to and from thesuburban stations near Chicago the ten platforms at fivestops, between Fifty-second Avenue and Bellwood, will beraised to the height of the car floors and made long enoughfor four-car trains. This will accelerate boarding and companys cars, which stop at every platform, that ordinar-ily a second elevated train one interval ahead of that firstpassed is overtaken at St. Louis Avenue, halfway betweenMarshfield Avenue and the joint terminal station at Fifty-second Avenue. Similarly the inbound trains of the Aurora,Elgin & Chicago usually overtake the elevated companystrains near St. Louis Avenue. August 5, 1911.) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 225 Until the new interlocking plant was installed the inter-urban trains were
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1911
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