New-York tribune., 1902-12-06
FROM SUBWAY TO CENTRAL
Plans. FOR CONTINUOUS TRAINS FROM
CITY HALL TO WESTCHESIER
SUBURBS.

Depending uron the plans of the New-1ork
Central and Hudson River Railroad Company
for enlarging its terminal facilities in Park
ave which were laid before the Board OF Is
innate and Apportionnlent on Thursday, is a
contemplated plan for direct connection netWeen
the Centrars tracks and the rapid transit ROAD.
If the contemplated plan is carried out some
Of the express trains which will leave the CITY
Hall station and go uptown through the sub
1ssv will be run over the Centrafs tracks under
the Grand Central Station, and continue on
-bro,rb the Psrk-ave tunnel north of Fifty
sixfh-et. TO Harlem, then over the railroad
bridge n Mott Haven. and then either over the
Harlem Division to White Plains or over the
Hudson River Division of the Central
William Barclay Parsons. chief engineer OF
the Rapid Transit Commission, and W. i. VII
gus chief engineer of the Central. have dis
'cussed the contemplated plan, hut Mr. Par
cons said Yesterday that it was not possible TO
-ork on details of the plan and make actual
drawings until the plan for depressing the Cen
trails tracks north of the Grand Central Sta
ton had been ADOPTED. The plans OF Mr.. VIII
gus for the changes at The Grand Central sta
ton and in Park-aye. north Of the station
however have been drawn with view to a
rossihle connection Of the Central,s tracks with
che subway and in the propositions which the
railroad company made TO the Board of Es-
Inmate and Apportionnent the consent of the
city is asked To a connection with the RAPID
transit subway at Fo-ty-second- Moreover.
10 make. such a connection possible without
grade crossings. the subway tunnel i'm Park
ave south or Forty-second-st-. has been con-
structed SO as TO provide room for two addi-
'ticnal interior tracks that can be depressed
under the tracks that are to turn into Forty
seoond-st
The plan "a connect the Central's tracks with
the express tracks in the subway would be easy
Of execution if the plans for depressing the Cen
trails tracks north Of the Grand Central Sta
1ion carried out Beginning at about
Fift;efh-st-. additional outer tracks would be
depressed TO pass under other Central
tracks entering the station. and these depressed
tracks would pass under the station and under
the subway in Forty -second-st- and join the
ef about Thirty-siXth-s st. BY that
press trains over the Harlem Division on a trip
from White Plains after reaching the Grand
Central Station. could pass under the station
switch to the express tracks in the subway at
Thirty-sixth-St-. and 60 down to the City
Hall The saving in time would be consider
able for passengers entering the city over the
Centrals divisions. and the necessity for chang
ing cars would be removed.
Contemplated changes at the Grand Central
Station. if such plans are adopted would in
clude an increase in the size of the main waiting
room, the construction of elevated drfveways in
the tTainshed and improved facilities for
handling baggage Mr.. Wilgus saws that the
waiting room would be extended across the
entire width Of the terminal, from Vanderbilt
ave. TO Depew Place. and would be one of the
finest waiting rooms in the world its present
length being doubled. The concourse would he
nearly doubled in width and connected by stair
ways with a plaza over the tracks and train
cles going TO and from the station. The tracks
In the station would be depressed below their
present level The incoming baggage room
would be over the tracks and on level with
the elevated driveway