advantageously on both sides of the river for the accommodation of shippers not having private in- dustrial trackage serving their plants   In addition to its leasing and operation of the Eads Bridge and Tunnel, the Terminal Railroad Association also owns the Merchants Bridge in North St. Louis, an important connecting link for both freight and passenger traffic. Its owns and operates the Union Station, the only passenger station in the world having 42 tracks serving 16 railroads.

A glance at the accompanying map will show how the Terminal Railroad acts as a hub of the great railroad systems radiating from St. Louis. Over its right of way moves the bulk of all the through traffic and a large percentage of local traffic.   The magnitude of the services can be gauged by the record of a representive twenty-four hour day in which the Terminal interchanged 9302 loaded cars and 7739 empties. On June 19, 1942, a high total of 18,967 cars were interchanged, The pas- senger schedule of the Union Station regularly in- cludes 84 outbound and 86 inbound trains per day The total number of trains frequently rises to 200 per day, exclusive of special train move- ments.   All eastern trains use the Merchants Bridge or the Eads Bridge, except the Pennsylvania , Balti- more & Ohio, and the Illinois Central which use the Municipal Bridge. Termnial motive power is used to handle passenger trains of the Louisville & Nashville, Southern, and Illinois Central in and out of Union Station. All other roads use their own power.

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