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Re: (rshsdepot) MKT Depots and platforms
Jay,
According to my book of MKT Standard Plans, all of the "track side"
platforms are at one level. This is the level of the passenger platform. The
only platform that is shown higher, is the freight end and road side
platforms. This would make it easier to load freight onto trucks and wagons.
The freight door on the trackside of the station is higher than the walk
through passenger door. This would make loading onto the REA cart easy.
> I am working on an MKT Depot restoration and needs some expert advice
> regarding the rail platforms. Here is the scoop:
>
> Historic maps of the depot show it had a platform all the way around the
> building.
> The Depot itself has low passenger doors and a low baggage door, and five
> high freight doors.
> Would it have been more typical for the platform to be one level - all low
> at the same height as the passenger and baggage doors and with freight
> carried from cars to the depot with a hand cart
> - or -
> would the platform have been two levels with the freight platform being
the
> same height as the floor of the freight rail cars?
>
> For reference, this is the Itasca, TX Depot.
> Jay Firsching
> ARCHITEXAS - Architecture, Planning and Historic Preservation, Inc.
> 1907 Marilla St
> Dallas, Texas 75201
> 214-748-4561 f-214 748-4241
>
>
>
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> railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
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