New-York tribune., 1900-11-21
NEW MOTOR FOR CENTRAL
CHANGES WHICH IT WILL BRING
ABOUT IN HANDLING TRAINS.
STATION CONTEMPLATED - COMPRESSED
AIR CARS TO BE RUN FROM FORTY SEC
OND-ST. TO PENNSYLVANIA FERRY.
INSPECTOR A. A CROSS.

AIR CARS TO BE RUN FROM FORTY SEC
| OND-ST TO PENNSYLVANIA FERRY.
The officials of the New-York Central Rail-
! road have been experimenting with motors in
order to find which haul heavy train
| from Albany to New-York and back If such
| motor can be found, and the reports made by
the experts are most promising now. complete
change will be made in handling trains entering
| the Grand Central Station. The plan contem-
| plates tuneing under the station, running the
| trains in a loop and then out again. Sam
uel r. Galloway. president of the Central
~, his In the course OF general talk yes
terday regarding the improvements which have
been and to be made in the New-York Cen
| tral system He explaining the delay yes
terday in the arrival OF trains due to the change
| of the switching system in the Centrals yards.
| We run about four hundred trains in and out
every day" said the president. and you
| what small eeway have. a breakdown in
the tunnel. any delay. and the whole thing
! gets tangled We have so little space for opera
| tion that every inch counts. We hope for great
things from this system when finally
! get it in actual order. The time is comng-and
! have plan for 1t in my desk-when we shall
| tunnel under the station and run around a loop.
coming right in and running on around and out.
| We can't do that with engines. however.
| count OF the smoke and dirt The third rail-
| system, owing to the danger to life. seems to be
| mpractcable We are experimenting with mo-
tors. and. am told. getting satisfactory results.
| Whenever get the thing that fills the BILL
shall start in. That is what 1 tell every man
! with motor who comes in here. I say: IF
| you have got motor that will do the work you
| are just the fellow want We will get IT
| some day.
| WHAT IS NECESSARY
Eve cannot a motor just to shift in the
| yards and pull a train In out Of the station.
| The time it would take for coupling and
| coupling would vtiate any value 1t might have.
| We have got to have motor that will haul
train down from Albany and into the station
! and back to Albany. where a change to a steam
| engine can be made. But whatever is hitched
! on at Albany or in New-York must make the
full run the Hudson River division. as there
is no possibility of changing that division"
plan has been developed by the Central and
| the Metropolitan Street Railway Company by
which number OF streetcars, propelled by COM
! pressed air will be run from terminal in front
of the Grand Central stations shed. where trains
arrive, down Fourth-ave. to Twenty-third-st..
| and across 10 the Pennsylvania Railroad ferry.
! There is heavy interchange of traffic between
the Two railroads. and this Will accommodate
| the public.
AS result of changing the system of running
trains into the Grand Central station. there were
|
| traffic In the yards yesterday. Under the
| Old system the were detached in the yard
| and run in flying switch. a new pneu-
| matte system of track signals and levers has
| just been installed in the yard. and 1t was be-
| leved that trains could be run in solid and
/ after disChargng their passengers be hauled
| out by switch engines In the first place. the
use of the signals proved confusing to the
! train crews, and they worked slowly and care
fully In order to avert any possible accident or
misunderstanding. This caused delays. In the
| second place, the running in of solid trains
| brought about congestion and the switching
engines unable to handle the trains offered.
Ihis caused more delay and confusion. All IN
coming trains delayed from fifteen minutes
| 10 an hour by this confusion. and thousands
| were irritated, annoyed and inconvenienced by
! the trouble
RESULT OF MR.. CALLAWAY'S INSPECTION
President Galloway personally went through
the yards in the afternoon and inspected the
switching system. He finally decided that the
men In the yards had undertaken to revolution
! ize the whole system too suddenly, and that
gradual change better. AS g. result, he or
dered a return to the old system of running in
trains and pulling them out. This Immediately
renewed the congestion. and the delays were
avoided. The system will be put into ef-
Iect, but 1t will be brought about little by little,
ana a gradual reconstruction effected.