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Show ELEVATED ROAD ONTHE S. P. The only stretch of elevated railroad rail-road west of Chicago 16 being built in California at the Oakland terminal on the Southern Pacific company It Is to accommodate the numerous suburban sub-urban electric trains that pass at that point with pasbengere between the east bay cities and San Francisco. The rails will be carried on a double dou-ble track, balasted deck structure, extending for a distance of 384 feet, or about tweHe city blocks. The roadway begins to climb at the foot of Twentieth street on the present right of way, entering the new Sixteenth Six-teenth street depot on the secoud floor. Here suburban passengers are handled without mingling with those for main line trains Leaving the depot, de-pot, the elevation Is maintained, the track parallelling the steam train tracks and allowing the freight trains to pass underneath at Eleventh street to the railroad yards. The surface Is again reached at the foot of Ninth street These changes are made to prevent congestion, for the traffic out of the Oakland terminal is very heavy. Slreet cars and teams will cross under un-der the oerhead tracks in going to and from the Oakland municipal wharves on the western front, steel viaducts having been erected to allow al-low ample clearance ocr tracks and streets Four tracks will carry passenger traffic between the Sixteenth street depot and the Mole, two for electric linos only nnd two for through and local steam trains. It is said that those facilities will greatly expedlate th handling of ferry traffic during excursions and celebrations, and lu particular during the Panama-Pacific International exposition In 1915. |