Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-02-28
RAILROAD IMPROVEMENTS,
P., w. a. B. Co. to Have Three Freight
Stations in This City.

P., w. a. JS. Co. to Have Three Freight
Stations in This City.
The plans for the p, w. & B. rail
road improvements cal for three freight
stations in this city. At Landlith there
will be a new building erected to be
known as transfer station. Freight
consigned to other places, but which is
sent to this city in one car and then
distributed among other cars for its
destination, will be transferred there.
AT present transfers are made at the
regular atation. The new one at Land
lith will be long building one story
high. On each side will be two tracks,
each to hold Is cars, which will make
this 60-car station.
The old freight station at Fourth and
Pine sti eets will become through
freight station for Philadelphia, Will
mington and Baltimore railroad bus-
ness. To give more room it will be
doubled in size by building out to
Third street. The old car shops, the
old roundhouse and several other build
ings will be torn down and these spaces
filled with freight tracks. Between
the tracks will be large. wel-paved
roadways, so merchants and others who
receivs goods in car load lots can drive
their wagons up to the cars and unload
without going into the freight station.
This will give more room side the
freight station.
The company will also have ample
room on these new tracks to handle the
freight which comes to and leaves the
city. 1t IS also expected that spaces
now occupied by the old machine ehops
opposite the station and by the present
station will be used for freight tracks,
so that the company will have an
almost unlimited opportunity to store
cars of freight.
There will be another freight station
for local freight somewhere between
Fourth street and West street beneath
the elevated railroad tracks The
tracks between the points named will
be elevated 10 feet abJVe the ground
and beneath this there will be ample
opportunity to locate large freight
rooms. The same plan will be followed
as under the elevated railroad in Phila-
delphia near Broad Street Station.
When the improvements we're first
decided upon it was thought they
would cost about $1,000. 600, but so
many changes have been made and SO
much new work added that the figures
named will scarcely be large enough to
make the Improvements which have
been mapped out. 1t is thought that
the general Elan of Improvements will
be to first complete the cutoff, which
is now being completed, then remove
the shops to Todd's cut, erect the
elevated railroad, complete the pas
senger station, make the changes in the
freight arrangements and erect the new
buildings and then make the changes
in the shifting yards.
Work on the cutoff. will be completed
shortly, and from now on the other
Improvements will be started and
pushed toward completion, The shops
and other buildings there must be-
removed before the elevated railroad
can be erected. Railroad men are of
the opinion that the improvements will
take at least three years to complete,
but the plans have been most com
pleted for all OF the work, and there
will be no stop after it is once COM
menced The right of way agents are
still busy in adjusting matters so that
the elevated line can be built. They
have already overcome numerous diff
culties, but in their work have met
with number OF problems which were
only overcome with considerable ditfi-
Guilty. In building the elevated rail
road it is the desire to avoid all sharp
curves So that better time may be
made. There will be an effort made to
erect the line according to the present
plans, but ii this cannot be done the
line will be adjusted to suit condi-
tions, as the company will not pay the
prices which are being asked by some
peonle for THAR Dronerty