Morning journal and courier., 1892-07-11
RAILROAD NOTES.

Nothing in it-The Grand Central
Depot Yarn-A Word Moro About
the Big Changes the Consolidated
Road Will Mako Here Before Long.
The Consolidated road authorities deny
the story afoat that the road is to sever
it's relations with the New York Central
road and enter New York by route other
than through the tunnel and the Grand
Central depot. They characterize the story
as absurd and say emphatically that there
is absolutely nothing in it," The story
was that the Consolidated road would
abandon its present terminal station at
New York and erect handsome new pas
senger station at Harlem. Having pre-
missed to this effect the story announced
further that the new Harlem station will
not be built until the present four tracking
of the York road is finished, which will be
in about a year more. The Consolidated
road authorities say the whole story is alb
surd.
The big changes contemplated by the
Consolidated in the vicinity of their pres
emit passenger depot, as already announced
in detail, are the most important and the
most extensive in character in New Haven
since the road was built. Vice President
Tuttle says the road will begin at once, or
as soon as they can legally, to remove the
obnoxious and dreaded tracks at the
Meadow street crossing, where, as the pub
| lie well remember West Haven horse car
| we'll laden with passengers was knocked
| over by locomotive, and where several
| lives have been sacrificed.
Then the company will build the track
along the West river bank to connect the
| Derby and the New York roads. ''This
new track" says Vice President futile,
connecting with the Derby road will be
| about 5000 feet in length. It Is to run
down along the line of West river and a
share of the distance it will be built on
| Derby trains will come in at the north end
of Union depot and it will be great con-
venience to passengers to arrive and de-
part at the Union station. The Derby
freight station will be continued. There
ia considerable land in that section be-
longing to the railroad that can be utilized
for additional buildings. It Is our pur-
pose ultimately to erect new buildings
for freight purposes and make that the
main local freight station Of the Consoli:
dated road. To accomplish this it would
be necessary to receive and forward the
local freight over the new connection that
|
II see no reason why the city should moi
grant our petition for power to make
these improvements, as the changes are t.
be of great benefit to the people of thu
city. connot say whether the new depo
will be built next year or not. These de
tails we have not completed. But we shall
not discontinue any Of the streets until tn
new depot is built. If the common coun
Gil permitted us to discontinue thes
streets, we should maintain them in goot
condition until we were ready to discon
tinue them.
1.-The proposed changes will allow us t.
throw our lands west of the depot all to
gether and make them more compact ant
more available for our use. We need thi
, land for terminal facilities. 1t will aid u
very much in handling our large and in
creasing freight business, and for othe
uses"
One of the lots of land which the com
pany will avail of is the fenced area d
rectly in front of Union depot. At on
time soon after the Union depot was bull
the railroad company offered to give tn
, plot to the city for park provided tn
! city would fence and improve it, but th
offer was not accepted and the officers Q
( the company are now very glad of it. b
: cause this plot will prove a very valuabl
piece of property in connection with tn
improvements. A portion of this lot an
the lot further west has been filled in sine
the depot was built. A very few year
ago the plots were frog ponds and wer
used in winter by juveniles for skating
and in summer for sailing rude boats
Since they were filled in they have bee
very pretty grass plots for the eye to res
upon, but the only pecuniary benefit ha
been from tho two fine hay crops harves
ed every summer. When the new depot
built there will be quite a saving in th
distance from the center of the city to tn
station. The street railroads now runnin
to the depot will have their lines term
nate at the new station, and each line wi
discontinue several hundred feet of il
= tracks. With the diminished distance
= however, it is likely that more people wi
i walk to and from the new depot tLan tho'
walking to the present station.