Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-07-14

About s100o000 was spent for new
equipments ALSO. The total gros
earnings Of the Pennsylvania system
OF l0.4s5 miles for the calendar yea
1901 We're sl9s.s2 ,S7S.ll. an incresas,
from 1909 OF 1880, ,524.44. The ne
earrings and above all expenses wer,
: i.9t2igl.S 50. an increase of stOl75.
i4.3S.
During the year 2i3 .iOS .035 tons o
freight were carried. an increase o.
2i,3Sl,65S over 1900, and 104. Al .3O1
passengers, an increase of 2o,794, ,s5i
over the previous year.
Between New York and Washington
several thousand men are now a,
work Strengthening and shortening
and elevating the tracks. reducing the
grades and laying heavier rails. When
the scheme is complete there will be
no grade crossings in any of the cities
or towns of Importance between New
York and Washington. The tracks
are not elevated on trestle. but upon
solid embankments of earth, sustain.
ed by heavy stone walls. and the track
VIII be laid in ballast of broken stone
There will thus he entirely new road,
bed for almost the entire distance
and probably the most expensive in
the world. The elevation of the
tracks makes new stations necessary
in nearly all the towns south of Ter.
sey City, which will be of the highest
order Of architecture. of substantial
materials and up to date These i'm
provements cost an immense amount
of money. At Newark. New Bruins
wick, including bridge across the
Raritan, s5.O0O,000 has already been
spent The New Brunswick bridge
has twenty-one arches of stone with
four tracks. 1900 feet long. 81 feet
wide
Al Trenton the track is being ele-
waited and a new four-track bridge of
stone across the Delaware has been
built, which has eighteen arches. go
feet long and "a feet wide. The i'm
proyements at Trenton cost So ,OOO,-
600
AT Philadelphia almost the entire
system of terminals is being recon
structed, including two new bridges
over the Schuylkll. several tunnels
and a new double-decked station at
the corner of Market and Thirty
fourth streets, so that through trains
between New York and the South and
West will not be required to back into
Broad street station as at present.
AT the new station all trains running
north and south will have their tracks
on the ground. and those running east
and west will be on elevated tracks.
so to avoid all possibility of collision
or detention. Every possible curve
and grade within the limits of Phila-
delphla has been eliminated and there
are no more grade crossings The
city government has paid portion of
the expense of eliminating them The
improvements in Philadelphia will cost
not less than SO 500 900. At Camden
similar improvements are going on for
the benefit of the New Jersey and sea
shore travel. When they are COM
pleted all trains will enter Camden
upon elevated tracks. Upon the
Amboy division the elevation will be
about two miles in length: on the
Atlantic City division two miles and a
half, and on the Cape May division
three miles. The cost in round num-
bers will reach $1,000, 900. and 81 .0O0.-
000 more has been or will be spent
in new stations. ferry slips and other
conveniences.
At Wilmington and Chester the
road Is being entirely rebuilt Here
after trains will pass through Chester
on an elevated track that will cost not
less than SO 900 900. and in Whining
ton new belt line is being built
around the city through the factory
district for the use of the freight
trains No freight viii be carried on
the passenger tracks, which will he
shortened and elevated through the
entire CITY. A new station will be
The cost at Wilmington will exceed
$4,000 900.
Similar improvements are being ex-
tended along the entire line to Wash
ington with a view of making the
track as straight and as level as pos
sible and avoiding all Interruptions,
That section between Wilmington and
the Susquehanna river has the best
roadbed on the entire Pennsylvania
system. II is the custom of the com
pany to give prises every year to the
supervisors who show the best tracks.
They are awarded by committee of
division supertendents and engineers.
who use automatic indicators and
water on the table. run the train at
the highest rate of speed and watch
the results. The supervisor of the
section between Wilmington and the
river got the prize last year.
The Pennsylvania company proposes
to spend sS,000.0 900 in Washington
erecting the finest railway station in
the world. of white marble and of
architecture corresponding to that OF
the capitol It is intended to be an
appropriate gateway to the seat OF
the nation Daniel II. Burnham. the
famous Chicago architect, is now
drawing the plans. 1t Is to be a
union station, taking in the Baltimore
and Ohio the Chesapeake and Ohio
the Southern and all other roads that
enter Washington, and will stand on
Massachusetts avenue, about half way
between the capitol and the govern
I T., 4.