Administration Building Rear Door

There is that door, set at a 45 degree angle. You may notice from other pictures that the wall shown here once had a door in place of one of those windows. It must have been replaced when the porch on the rear was enclosed. This is where the vaults were pulled from the cars as they pulled in and that "angled" door was a direct lead into the money room. The Vault was probably just pulled from the PCC we see in the picture. Since this corner of the building was probably the money room, that potential "roll-down-feature" seen in other photos is probably a security gate like those used today by business when they close for the day!

Every Friday at 4 PM M-1, the Pay Car, would pull onto this diagonal track at the rear of the junction building having come down the hollow from Warrington Ave. to mete out the conductors pay checks. It was a dark brown, wood-sided, car with wire mesh over all side windows, and with a four-wheel central truck which made the car rock up and down. I'll have to find a picture of M1

This picture also shows how the appearance of the top roof was ruined by cutting it back.

Information supplied by Jim Holland and Bob Schmidt.

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