The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-16
Rock Island and Frisco will
Have New st. Louis Depot.
Freight Structures and Terml-
nails TO Be Ready In October.
TOTAL COST s1,25O,OOC
Descriptions of Facilities From
Engineers Plans.
Gossip and Matters of Interest
in Railroad Circles.

st. Louis, July 16.@The St Louis
freight depots and terminal facilities
of the Frisco and the Rock Island
will be put at the service of shippers
and consignees early in October. The
well known Ashley building. which
was celebrated as the largest tene-
ment house in the United States. has
been destroyed and workmen are now
constructing the foundations for the
new railroad buildings.
The Frisco and Rock Island depots
occupy a convenient location in the
two blocks bounded by Broadway,
Collins. Biddle and O'FalIon street.
The east half of the adjoining block,
fronting on Broadway, between ORAL
Ion and Dickson streets, is used for
the approach tracks and special
freight purposes. The improvements
on the site are in charge of J. v.
Hanna, assistant engineer of nainte-
nance of way of the Frisco.
The outbound freight house will
rest on Broadway running from
Biddle street to O'Fallon street 1t
Will be $40 feet long and "a feet vide
It will be built of brick. and will be
one story high. On the Broadway
side. or front, there will be IS doors
for discharging freight and on the
east side. or rear. there will be the
same number of doors for handling
| freight into the cars. All the IS
doors on the Broadway front will be
protected by continuous canopy, T.
feet wide and about $40 feet long In
side the building there will be three
brick fire walls. dividing the structure
into four partitions TO prevent the
spread of fire
In the rear of the outbound freight
house will be six tracks. accessible
from the shipping doors. These
| tracks will be laid out in pairs. with
island platforms between each pair
This arrangement will facilitate the
| loading of cars
Just east of these six tracks will be
a paved teamway. This road; for use
of wagons, will be 45 feet wide be-
tween track eenters. Immediately
east of the teamway will be three un-
loading tracks for the inbound freight
house.
The inbound freight house will face
on Collins street, from Biddle street to
O'Fallon street. It will be SIT feet
long and As feet wide. Like the out
bound house it will be constructed of
brick. and will have about So doors
and a canopy 2 feet wide and about
SIT feet long. For distance of 200
feet from Biddle street, the second
floor is to be made up into offices.
The rest of the structure Will be one
story high and Will be devoted excIu-
/
will be set back 20 feet from the
building line on Biddle street. so as to
give ample room for teanling.
In the half block north of O'Fallon
street there will be the approach
tracks, a machinery platform, a crane
and a platform for loading vehicles
and similar freight There will be
space in this area for about ten cars.
The capacity of the outbound
freight house will be about 81 cars
i'll
a about AZ cars The total capacity of
the two freight houses will be about
1926 cars.
Ground. buildings and all improve
ments will cost approximately $3.50
/ 600. The engineers expect to have
the work finished early in October. and
then the Rock Island and the Frisco.
like the Wabash and the Louisville &
Nashville. will have their own freight
facilities in st. Louis. These improve
ments will be at least as good as the
/ best which the other roads have pro-
vided In st. Louis.