The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-09
TRAFFIC OF
4 BUSY CITY
Minneapolis Terminal Facili-
ties Must be Enlarged to
Handle It.
At Least $4,000 Is to
be Spent This
Season.

Plans now being discussed for the i'm
pr ovement and enlarging Of railroad and
terminal facilities in Minneapolis call for
an expenditure Of 81, 100000 The Great
Northern, which has large holdings of ter
minal property in and around Minneapolis,
will probably lead all other roads in ter
minal improvements.
II the plans now under consideration
by the Great Northern general officials
go through, the expenditures of that COM
parry to better it's facilities here will cost
in the aggregate a million dollars.
Other roads owning terminals here were
forced to enlarge them considerably last
year. This expenditure with the new ter
minals to be constructed by the Burling-
ton, Cedar Rapids & Northern. is con-
servatively estimated at $500, 900.
President Hill of the Great Northern
considers his judgment on terminal prop
erty Yindicated by the progress Of events
at various big centers reached by the
Great Northern Minneapolis is one of
them: When the Hill system was acquir-
Ing such large amount Of terminal prop
erty In and adjacent to Minneapolis, it is
related that other railway men laughed
and predicted that the Great Northern
would not ind use for the property with
In 100 years. Mr.. Hill was acquainted
with the fact that way I'D railway men
considered his terminal property ideas a
joke. In his speech at Fargo, where he
spoke of the rapid progress OF the coun-
Try, ne reminded his audience that the
development Of the country beyond the
expectations Of the average observer OF
twenty years ago had marked his pur-
chases OF terminal property as wise.
G. N. Facilities Congested,
Great Northern officials say that with
lhe fcad s Dig terminal facilities in Min
neapolis, including the big improvements
and trackage additions made some wears
ago, the Great Northern is again forced
TO remodel and greatly enlarge it's facili-
ties here The road still has much uu-
occupied land on the East Side and will
probably utilize it. The East Side yards,
among the largest railway yards in the
west, are congested. The Hamline trans
Ter Is worked to the limit; as also are
the Lyndale wards and the big trackage
IT. northeast Minneapolis. At Hamline
all of the merchandise freight from Min
neapolls and st. Paul destined for points
on the Great Northern is transferred to
the cars of the daily freights which are in
turn hauled 10 the other yards and finally
consolidated into the long trains which
leave here for the northwest shortly after
midnight. The immense increase in the
jobbing trade of the twin cities has taxed
the facilities at the Hamlipe transfer to
the limit and some new plan for reliev-
ing that plant is being discussed
1t is reported that the East Side yards
may be utilized for this purpose. This
transfer plant is one Of the notable econo-
mics in Great Northern railroading
Through it the tedious peddling by freight
trains along the system is avoided to q
large extent. Wherever possible the
merchandise freight for any one point is
made into one carload and the car set out
at the town in question for the draymer
to unload at leisure instead Of taking time
to pass the freight from various cars
through the freight house. This also
serves to increase the earnings of eacf
freight car employed we'll as to cu
down the distance over which empties
used in the service must be hauled back
In addition to a saving in time. The
Great Northern may also enlarge it:
freight depot in Minneapolis.
Work by Other Roads.
Until the city council takes action OF
the requests of the Omaha and the Bur