Identifier: architectenginee6220sanf (find matches)
Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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POST OFFICE BUSINESS 3000500028002600240022002000600 OQUlO ^ 1600 z< / / / / / / f / ■^ 1890 1900 1910 1920 1890 1900 1910 1920 DIAGRAMS SHOWING GROWTH OF LOS ANGELES(FROM REPORT OF ENGINEER RICHARD SACHSETO THE STATE RAILROAD COMMISSION) THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER
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HABBOn fi;?^sir«i-° THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 53 crossings and there is a serious delay to traffic. The Santa Fe has developed aplan to eliminate 61 street, eight electric railway and two steam railroad cros-sings, shortening, in addition, its line and reducing the gradients and curvature.The Santa Fe plan is approved in the report, and the recommendation is addedthat the Salt Lake and possibly the Pacific Electric should join in the construc-tion and use of the new tracks, resulting in a partial or complete elimination oftheir present trackage. The report recommends that the probkm of grade crossing eliminationshould be considered as a whole and with a view to probable future develop-ments rather than to use the much more expensive and less satisfactory methodof dealing with the individual crossings in a pieclfheal fashion.- The followingrecommendations are made : i^ 1. All grade crossings of the Santa Fe on the west bank and of theSalt Lake on the east bank should be eliminated b

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