Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-08-01
AWARDED BIG CONTRACT
Baltimore 4 Ohio viii Spend
$4,000, 5000 at Washington.
ITS SHARE OF UNION DEPOT
Magnificent New Terminal at Capital wiz
Cost $4,000, ooo-News and
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Gossip Of the Railroads.
The magnificent new terminal TO be
bnilt at Washington, ID. O., for all the
railroads entering the national CAPITAL
will soon be under actual construe-
ton. A plost important step toward
this end was taken Yesterday at the
general Offices of the Baltimore g. Ohio
railroad. IN the Central building at
| Baltimore. This was the awarding of
contract representing over 50, 600,
| 600 for that part of tho work which
the Baltimore q Ohio officials will su,
pervise. The contractors are McMul-
! len & McDermott and the Hoffman
Engineering Co. of Philadelphia It
will take two years to complete the
work TO be done under the contract.
The contractors begin construction
at once
| This contract embraces the eastern
approach to the new terminal; tive
| freight yards round houses and con-
Meeting tracks to be used by the Bal
.timore & Ohio Railroad Go. This AZ
nroach TO the terminal will be about
three miles long and will run from
Monticello, ON the Washington branch
of the Baltimore & Ohio. At Montel-
10 will diverge the tracks Of the Met
ropolitan branch, furnishing the Ball
timore s. Ohio's outlet to the west.
and the tracks of the Washington
branch, which is its means of reach
| ing Washington from the north. In
the same vicinity the tracks of the
Pennsylvania railroad will be connect
ed with the terminal approach.
One striking feature of the construc-
tion Of the eastern approach will be
the huge stone viaduct. This vladuct
will be about enc mile and quarter
long, and over it the entire traffic
from the north and east will pour in
to WASHINGTON. Stone was selected
instead of steel so as 10 make the work
permanent one. 1t will have 10 tracks
to reach the terminal. and inside the
station the train tracks will be more
than double that number.
| Owing to the immensitv of the WORK
to be done in creating the new termi-
nal, it was found necessary to divide
it into three parts. One feature will
be the construction of the station it
self. This will be in charge of Archi-
tect Burnham, of Chicago, and will
be beautiful marble building, with
ornate landscape effects surrounding
it, A second feature will be the build.
ing of the approach from the south,
including the great tunnel under Cap
itol Hill. This work will be done by
the Pennsylvania railroad and the
third will be the work for which the
Baltimore & Ohio awarded contracts
yesterday The whole work will cost
about Sl4. 600, 600.
/ When finished this station will be
the greatest passenger terminal In the
world for land travel. 1t will have
nearly q score of tracks and platforms
where the passengers from seven great
railroad systems will descend into the
nations capital. 1t will be built un.
der the direction of Architect Charles
E. Durham, of Chicago, who has
drawn the designs for number of
Washington's public buildings, aud
will conform TO that splendid theory
of building laid out by the District
commissioners.
Another remarkable thing abont this
great railroad terminal will be that it
will be entered by systems which rep
resent about one-fifth of the total rail-
road mileage of this country The
railroads that will use the terminal
are as follows:
System. Miles
Atlantic Coast Line and l.. & N 10, 500
Baltimore and Ohio ... 4,500
ChesaDeake and Ohio - SOC
Norfolk and Western .. 1850
Pennsylvania Railroad 10, 50C
Seaboard Air Line ..... 5000
Southern Railway - 5000