New-York tribune., 1900-12-01
HOPE IN NEW SWITCH SYSTEN.
PRESIDENT CALLAWAY SAYS 1T WILL DO
AWAY WITH DELAYS AT THE
GRAND CENTRAL.

Samuel r. Galloway. president Of the New-Yorl
Central Railway Company said yesterday that
when the new switch system fully working in
the yards Of the Grand Central Station the trouble
and delay which have been manifest for some
time would be done away with entirely
we are running the trains in and out to-day
with very little delay" said Mr.. Galloway Here
he picked up a report sheet showing that out Of
over four hundred trains run in and out within
forty-eight hours less than two dozen ha been de-
tained, and they only for periods ranging from
three 10 thirty-three minutes
II will be fully two weeks before we get the
new system finally installed" continued Mr. Gala
way The trouble we tried to get II working
too soon. II is like learning a new alpbabet The
train crews will have to master the new signals
ana this IS no easy matter with between 800 and
10" new switches up in the yard. When it is
DONE however l think everything will be all
rlght The trouble isn't in the yard II is up in
The neck OF the bottle II is I'm the tunnel Let
train get delayed five minutes there and the next
one VIII be Kept back ten minutes. and the next
hiteen' and so on until great congestion follows
uoh kho" when We will get a solution of the
tunnel trouble, although the new switch system
will be all right. Our experiments with motors co
Tar nave been productive Of nothing. We handle
so many trains m and out here every dav that
there Is no time 10 hitch and unhitch motors at
the upper end OF the tunnel We will have 10 wa 81
until We can get a motor that win bauI a ,rai,,
over The division to Albany and back Perhaps
then the plan We have Of tunnelling and making
loop and running trains around will be all right
but We cannot do tnat with engines on account of
'he art ana smoke II may be that We will be able
some time when the underground is built 10 shoot
rams oo"h some OF those subways but that Is in
'he future. Certainly. when the new switch srs
Tbis fbinP ba tle delay will be done away with
-. ailli,s lls ,.en exaggerated II a person -
koPt N9lins IN The tunnel ten or fifteen nnipit - -
i5SS llh'iSS 20 uhlik that IL is an hour ana IN
~ .sl,oilulisiyI We are doing what We can n9
! bi.S Nouile IS ABOUT over now ''' anu
/ ne aittIaiions IN the yard include an o,Iar,.o
LHtlt oI us UNITS The property betwaar ISr77-
seNsiltH ana forty-eighth sts In NTs5i.1ro vi >
ustu Dy lHe american Express Connar1 - Lte- =
ttNei over, ana the express buildinPs o. Ling
o. o. &sIlollsIleo 10 make way for addit{opsI nSIl6
,ILt, express company will move Ia an O. a.. n
ulo9Sh aild tne extra room acquired by The
/ some Of the delay anu u" away with
/ President CallaWav and the si-.c,o-- = .
were in conference [ost..rl directors OF the road
i1t the facilities Of the Grand Centrsi sIliaI
/ p1t nothing was decided on. 'eiilihaI'
! u, Teslaeht Nreeland OF the Metropolitap S,a,
hanAaE company and the agents on ,ba ,,tel o.eel
taII"ad ana ferry companies having -, va lou
.'Ie Itio conference yesterday The. stii
m aoNsab:ltg oi constructing a new si,rfaoo
Hhlci snaA nave direct conncctiors .-1 1.e Ioau
1IaAu Aehtfal 10 The ferries operated ~ ~ 70,
5gltaiila. Jersey Central Baltimore ana 9y, elI I'M
Ei!S companies This Il following ON ~ ai,e
oIlllsd exclusively Ia The Tribune rece,,tI,p ~
~ nILlc1 caIe propelled by air power viii rn1 froyS -
tAe Nraud central Station down Foirtb 80 AioiI Ill
zen West through Twenty -third-st 10 We, ~,
ana a-ons Nesi-st. skirting the railroad ferries