Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-11-02
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AID CITY TRAVEL
RAILROAD PROPOSES CHANGES
IN HANDLING TRAINS AND
UNION STATION TRAFFIC.
CONCESSIONS RESULT OF
COMPLAINT AND HEARING
Traffic Committee Of MarshaIItown
Club Accepts Some Proposals and
Objects to Others-RajIroad to Pro-
vide Mere Protection for Passen-
gers and Bring Cars Closer.

some feiiei from tTalIlC conditions
on the Northwestern existing at the
union station and some improve
ments in the method OF handling
passengers at the station have been
offered by the Northwestern, follow
Ing the filing OF the petition of com.
plant last spring ana the hearing
before the railroad commissioners in
this city last summer The improve.
meNts proposed by the Northwestern,
as SGT out In letter to Dwight n.
Lewis, chairman of the state board Of
railroad commissioners, have been
considered by the traffic committee
of the Marshalltown Club, and have
been approved in part.
Further negotiation and cores
pOndenCe will be necessary between
the committee, of which E. II. Draper
is chairman, and the state railroad
commissioners and the Northwestern
before all the details under 0onSid-
GRAFTON and dispute are settled.
Railroads Proposals.
The proposals made by the North
western to aid in handling passen-
gers and for the accommodation OF
passengers include: Moving the pen
stock from which locomotives of
east-bound trains take water, 900
feet east of its present location.
Moving the penstock from which
west-bound train locomotives take
water 200 feet west Of its present To-
f.nt
the platform to furnish more ade-
quate protection for west-bound pas
sengers. Remove the fence between
the Northwestern's main line tracks.
No proposal was made by the
Northwestern to open its west-bound
trains on the north side to allow
passengers to get on and off.
What Committee Wants.
In the correspondence with the
railroad commission regarding the
Northwestern's proposals the COM
mittee has agreed to some details.
objected to others and made sugges-
lions for still others
The committee agrees to the pro-
posal to move the penstock used by
east-bound locomotives 800 feet
farther east This would allow pas
senger coaches and Pullmans Of
trains to be brought up to the station
platform. The committee proposes
that the penstock used by west
bound locomotives be moved 300 feet
farther west, instead Of 200 feet in
order that passenger coaches Of
trains can be brought nearer to the
station building.
The committee proposes that the
shelter be not only reconstructed but
that it be extended to the extreme
western end Of the platform to afford
protection, not only for west bound
Northwestern passengers, but for M.
e st. l.. passengers who are pre-
vented by Northwestern trains from
crossing to the station.
Want Still Other Shelter.
The committee also proposes that
additional shelters be constructed on
the north side of the Northwestern
tracks, both east and west of the
station building to afford protection
for passengers who ,alight from cars
far distant from the station.
The committee agrees to the
NorthWestern's proposal to remove
the tense between the Northwestern
main line tracks.
The Northwestern has not made
any proposal to the railroad commits
sion as to opening it's west-bound
trains on the north side so passen-
gers could get on and off. The COM
mittee points out to the railroad
commission that it was it's under
standing at the hearing held here
that the Northwestern had agreed to
this. The committee proposes that
the railroad commission order the
Northwestern to open it's west-bound
trains.
It is also proposed to the commits
sion that the commission order short
local trains to stop at the station,
then pull beyond to the penstocks, af-
ter they are moved to the proposed To-