The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-17
THE BIG UNION STATION
IN WASHINGTON.
B.&O to Spend $40, 100000
Will be One of the Finest
in the Country.

now in progress in the country is
the erection of the magnificent
Union Station, at Washington,
ID. c., and the construction of the
necessary approaches to- it. These
terminal improvements will cost
about SIG, 10000 and the Balti
more 4 Ohio Railroad will bear a
considerable portion of the expen-
SEES. In addition it will have to
lay a lot Of new tracks and make
other improvements required in
the new terminal scheme, involv-
ing an expenditure of about 81.
OO0.O This means that the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad will
spend about Sl0,000,000 on the
entire work. The present expec-
tationS are that it will be com
pleted by the fall of 1896. One
of its greatest benefits will be the
elimination of every grade cross
ing, as all tracks will either go
over or under the street crossings.
The station and It's location will
include new coal yards for the
Baltimore & Ohio between First
and Second and NJ and n streets.
to replace those formerly located
on the station site. They consist
of six lines of trestleS about 600
feet in length each. Is feet high,
with capacity of 10000 tons.
A new freight terminal is being
constructed at New York and
Florida avenues, and will he most
complete for handling all the
business furnished 10y the city Of
Washington. About so per cent.
of this business is in bound aud 20
per cent. outbound. Team or
bulk unloading tracks will be pro
vided TO accommodate about $50
cars, while the house tracks will
care for about 200 cars.
The passenger yards and shops
will be equal to the best in the
country. They will be located
east of the freight terminal and
consist of a joint passenger coach
yard, roundhouSe. shops, engine
yards aud repair tracks. Two
tracks, between the terminal train
yard and the roundhouSe. will he
set aside for handling engines and
cars between the stations, coach
yard and rOundhOuSe without in
terfering with the movement of
trains over the main passenger
tracks. The passenger coach
yard will he so arranged as con
veniently to accommodate at least
600 cars.
The southern approach to the
station will be through IA tunnel
under First street from New Jer
Sey avenue and ID street southeast
TO the basement of the station.
1t will be built for a double track
line and consist of two single
track tunnels, built side by side
and separated by concrete wall
four feet thick. Each tunnel will
have a width of 16 feet and a
height of II feet from top of rail
70 SOffit of the arch. The Penn
sylvania Railroad is constructing
the tunnel.
Substantial bridges will carry
the tracks of the north and west
approach to the terminal over the
streets. The shortest bridge will
carry ten tracks, divided into TWO
groups of five each. For the pur
pose OF constructing the approaches
TO the station Massachusetts
/ avenue was made the dividing
line, the Baltimore q Ohio Rail
road taking charge of all work
north, except the Pennsylvania
Railroad connection between Win
throp Heights and Magruder, and
the Pennsylvania Railroad taking
charge of all work south. The
very closest attention is being
given to the most minute detail,
with IA view to making this Union
Station and terminals complete
and substantial III modern con
Struction, ornate in style, thor
oughlyconvenient and comfortable
i'll all of its appointments and one
the best in the country.