The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-01-01
B.&0.' 0.'SNEW YORKLINE
a ouANea sAIp no BRIIN VIEW.
Surveys Haao apd the Matter to 60 BSror.
PhilRdslphiA COuusll-uurvsS Dispensed
with Some lIllsn Saved and some
Reading Leases Avoided.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. Sl.-Ths Pren 0
to-day says; 1t ia announced that tn
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad has adopted /
plan for It's line to New York that will al
together do away with the necessity 0
using the tracks Of the Reading Railroad
main line from TwsntY-eighth and POpla,
streets past Belmont Station to West Falls
andth0ncs East to Wayne Junction, al
was originally intended, The scheme al
present favored by the Baltimore & Ohio
and for which they have had surveys
made and bids turned in from contractors
Is the building Of q liue Of their own from
what is now the terminus at Twenty.
eighth and Popular streets to Tabor juno
ton on the North Penn Railroad.
For 4 long time, 1t Is said, the officers Of
the Baltimore and Ohio have been trying
TO evolve a plan Tor getting for getting
from Baltimore to New York that will re-
dues the number Of different roads neCes-
sary to traverse, and with which contracts
will be necessary, The new route, while
requiring the expenditure OF more money
to complete 1t than the old one would
have done, simpl6es the whole question
wonderfully and lessons the distance and
time between this city and New York,
Starting at TWsnty-sighth and Poplar
Streets, the line runs diagonally to
Thlrlieth and Thompson Streets. Il pro.
ceeds North on Thirtioth to Diamond,
from which point II runI Northeast Ia an
almost straight line, II crosses Hunting
ton at about Twenty.asventh Street, and
goes through the North Penn Village, four
1quares West OF tho Municipal Hospital,
crossing tho Lamb Tavern Road at about
rwenty,iourth street. It crosses the Nor,
cistown branch OF the Reading railroad
uear the Bellevue Station, or above Ken.
uedy's and Allegheny Avenue, II then
goes over the intersection Of Twenty.ssC-
ond and Tioga streets, where there will
30 a'station, and crosses the Germantown
branch Of the Reading, near the NlCetowu
depot. 1t proceeds Northeast from that
point over the WingohoCking Creek,
through farm lands to Tabor Junction,
which Is on the North Penn Road. Tabor
Junction is the point where the New York
branch Of the Reading and the North
Penn Railroad meet.
Inc Baltimore / Ohio propose 10 run
trains on this new line Of theirs directly
from Baltimore to Tabor. Thence they
will 20 by the North Penn, which Is
leased by the Reading, to Bound Brook.
From the latter point, where the North
Penn ends, the Baltimore d Ohio will
have Its own line to Staten Island, The
saving Of distance by the new route 10 Just
Two and half milGg. By the Reading
main line route the distance 10 Tabor
Junction ia seven and hall miles. BY
The new line II is five, aud there Is the
additional advantage that there are not
tho heaviest curves, or, indeed, any at all,
that exist on the original plan. The OBJ.
!tructlon OF freight cars on the Reading
taad Is also avoided. OF paramount i'm
p9rtanCe 10 tue tapt, too, that legal com.
plications, caused by clauses, In leases,
are ayolded by letting the Reading main
line alone. The obligations that must be
undertaken by company uslng even a
lew miles Of the Readings main line are
said to be very many and very serious,
Negotiation for tic tight OF way, 1t Is
stated, has already been begun. In order
that the properties might be bought at the
lowest figure, the whole project has been
80 far kept very aeCrot. The surveyors
have been seen In the neighborhood
measuring and locating the best land, but
It was not known by property holders for
whom they were working. II 10 probable
that grade crossing will be avoided, and
that tho connecting railroad will be cross-
ID under grade Rt Thirteenth street and
Montgomery Avenue,
Itis said that the ordinance authorizing
the construction Of the road will be intro.
1uced at an early meeting OF Councils,
when as lively q fight 1t Is expected will
Ie made toit as was shown towards the
right Of way lsgislation OF the Baltimore 4
Ohio Railroad last summer,