Identifier: streetrailwayrev15amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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under the contract are made weekly and the accountsettled monthly. The account of passenger fares is kept upon reg-isters in the interurban cars, the expense of installing the registersbeing equally divided between the two companies. An interesting Illinois St., and Capitol Ave., also the entire northeast quarter <ithis block, excepting a lot fronting 120 ft. on Ohio St. and gj/jft. on Illinois St., and also secured 25 ft. off of the cast side of thesouthwest quarter. This block is cut from east to west by a 30-flstreet known as Waliash St., and from north to south by a is-flalley. The company secured from the city a vacation of this alley,so that it has in effect a rectangle 420x425 ft., with the exception oflots at diagonally opposite corners; one of these, as mentioned, is120x971/2 ft. and the other lot not owned by the company is i8oxI9S ft. The office building occnpics the southeastern corner of the terminalproperty and is 163 ft. 8 in. long by 08 ft. wide and nine stories in
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TRAIN SHEU AND OFFICE BUU-UINC—INDIANAPOLIS TRACTION & TERMINAL CO. provision of the interurban contract is that in event of the limits ofthe city being extended to take in a part of the tracks built by theinterurban company, the latter agrees to sell to the Traction & Ter-minal company the tracks included within the corporate limits, ex-clusive of any franchise valuation, at a price to be agreed upon, orfailing that to be determined by action in the Marion Circuit Court. Plans for the interurban terminal station were first considered bythe Indianapolis Street Railway Co. in the spring of 1902. Groundwas broken in 1903, and, while the office building was completed inAugust last, the station was first opened for traffic on Monday, Sept.12, 1904, the beginning of State Fair week. The site chosen is an admirable one, being one block west ofthe Circle, which is the geographical center of the city, and oneblock east of the State Capitol; it is one block north of Washington.^t., t

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