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R. R. HAZARD. TRANSFER RAILWAY STATION OR TERMINU-S. No. 329,164. Patented Oct. 2'7. 1885.

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PATENT ROWLAND B. HAZARD, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y.

SAPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 329,164, dated October 27, 1885.

Application filed February 27, 1885. Serial No. 157,166.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROWLAND R. HAZARD, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Structure Adapted for Exchange or Transfer Railway Stations and Termini, of which the following is a specific-a tion.

Myinvention relates to a transfer railway station or terminus; and it consists of a structure or building in which the basement, ground floor, and second floor are connected by elevators, stairs, and inclined planes, or either one or two of them are each furnished with alighting-floors or platforms, and are arranged for and support or inclose tracks or ways for underground, surface, and elevated railways, respectively.

It further consists of details of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents the basement or underground part of a structure embodying my invention, and is a crosssection on line or w of Fig. 4. Fig. 2 repre sents the ground or first floor, and is a cross section on line y of Fig. 4. Fig. 3 represents the second floor, and is a cross-section on line 2 z of the same figure. Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-section on lines w w of Figs. 1, 2, and 3, showing also the car outside of the building in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a vertical cross-section taken on line o 'v of Fig. 4.

In the drawings only so much of the structure is shown as is essential to a full disclosure of the invention, it being understood that said structure extends to the right of Figs. at and 5 a greater or less distance, as may be required to facilitate the transfer of passengers or goods. The said structure may be erected at any point or place where underground, surface, and elevated tracks terminate, or where they cross or pass near or over each other.

Referring to the drawings, A and B designate two of the walls of the structure, the remaining walls not being shown, as before explained. The basement or underground part of the structure is provided with four or more tracks, 0, for the way and express trains of an underground railway, which may either terminate in the building or pass in and out of (No model.)

the same. Platforms or alighting-floors D are placed in proximity to said tracks to give access to the cars. An inclined plane or roadway, F, solid or supported on a series of walls, piers, orcolumns, E, connects the basementG with the ground floor H. This roadway may be so constructed as to permit its use by pedestrians as well as by vehicles or cars. Opposite the inclined plane, on the ground floor, is a doorway, by which said plane communicates with the platforms of the first floor, and thence with the street. Flights of stairs K, K, and K and elevators L connect the several floors with each other and facilitate the transfer of passengers. The structure will of course be provided with as many flights of stairs and elevators as may be required to effect the transfer of passengers with dispatch. On the ground floor a series of rooms or covered passages, M, are provided, (two of which only are illustrated in the drawings,) designed for the use of surface railways, especially street-cars. These rooms or covered passages are provided with tracks N, communicating with those outside of the building, and can, if desired, be fitted up as Waiting-rooms forpassengers. T indicates the platforms of the first floor. Each of the rooms M may be assigned for use to a different company or line of cars, and all communicate with the platform by doorways, preferably furnished with doors. (Not shown.) Over each entrance or door of the rooms M maybe inscribed the name or route of the line of cars within. The outer openings or doorways of the rooms M will also be provided with doors, preferably of the kind which open and close automatically. Each room M is provided with a platform oralighting-floor adjacent to the track.

The second floor, I, of the building is located substantially on a level with the tracks P of the elevated railway, so that the cars thereof are readily accessible either from said floor or from a platform erected adjacent to said tracks.

To prevent anyinconveuience or injury to the building from the vibrations of the elevated structure caused by the running of trains thereon, I support its tracks within the building on a series of columns, 0, entirely disconnected from the walls and floors of the same, said columns beingbuilt on foundations R, sepany other uses.

structure many railways of all kinds.

arate from those laid for the walls, and passing freely through openings S in the floors.

I have shown in the drawings only two elevated tracks; but it is to be understood that any number of such, as well as of underground and surface tracks, may be supported by or inclosed within the said structure; In cities like New York, for example, the structure would inclose and serve a large number of railwaylines.

The building may consist of a greater number of floors than shown, and the additional floors may be subdivided into office-rooms for occupation by the several railway companies using the building, or may be converted to It is designed to erect a structure of the kind described especially in places where there is or may be a large exchange or transfer of passengers, and to lead intoor through said The transfer of passengers in such a structure is effected entirely under cover, and considering the nearness of all the tracks to each other and the facilities for passing from one floor to another, it is accomplished with the greatest comfort, safety, economy, and dispatch possible. This combination or concentration of a large number of railways will also be a great conyenience and economy to the traveling public, since from such a station transfer to and from all said conveyances may be effected with the minimum of cost, time, trouble, expense, danger, and straying, and many, if not al the sections of a city maybe reached, the extent of the facilities being dependent of course upon the number of lines entering the same.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

exchange or transfer railway station or terminus, in which the basement, ground or first floor, and second floor are connected by stairs, elevators, and inclined planes, or any one or two of them are arranged for and sustain or inclose tracks for underground, surface, and elevated railways, respectively, and are each furnished with alighting-floors or platforms adjacent to said tracks, substantially as described.

2. A structure or building arranged as. a railway station or terminus and inclosing an elevated railway structure passing therethrough or terminating therein, and disconnected from the'walls andfioors thereof, whereby the vibrations of said railway structure incident to the movement of trains will not be transmitted to the said building, substantially as described.

3. Astructure or building arranged as an exchange or transfer railway station or terminus, in which the basement is provided with tracks constituting part of an underground railway, the ground or first floor with a series of rooms or covered passages, provided with tracks for a number of surface railways, the second floor with tracks for elevated railways, supported on a structure disconnected from the walls and floors of the said building, and in which the several floors are provided with alighting-floors or platforms adjacent to said tracks, and are connected with each other by stairs, elevators, and inclined planes, or any one or two of them, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

BOVVLAND R. HAZARD.

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