Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-24
BETTER FACILITIES
SERVICE ON MT. VERNON RAIL
WAY TO BE IMPROVED.

The service on the Washington, Alexan-
dria and Mt. Vernon railway between this
city and Alexandria is to be vastly i'm
proved in the next month or two, If the
plans that have been mapped out by the
newly organized company do not miscarry.
A pre- minent official of the road yesterday
stated to a Star reporter that the plans ar
ranged called for the double tracking OF
the road new and modern cars and better
time to be made by the trains. All this, 1t
is reported, will be done long before the
SHOWS of another winter come.
AS has been stated in The Star, the dou-
BILE tracking of the road from Alexandria
to Four-Mile Run was started several days
ago, and as soon as the trolley poles can
be moved to one side a large force of men
will be put to work to construct the new
roadbed and lay the track Between Alex
andria and the power house there are four
long sidngs, and the plans call for the
connecting of these tracks into one con-
tnous track from Spring Park to the dou-
BILE track from Four Mile Run to Arlington
Junction. This new track will be ready for
service in about two months.
Regarding the double track from Airing
ton Junction to the new highway bridge,
no move will be made toward laying it until
the approaches to the new bridge are COM
pleted, but as the contract for these APP
proaches is to be given out in few days,
it is expected the work will be well under
way before hot weather comes. The new
bridge is arranged for two railway tracks
in the center, with drveways on each side,
so that the delays incident to the old sin
gle-track Long bridge will be done away
with when the new bridge is in use.
The construction of the tracks in the
city to the new station at 18th street, OPP
posite the post office building, is being hur-
ried, and it is expected the new station Will
be in use within a month, about the mid
IL sv<r IN fhn Cfo
ton are to be comfortably fitted up for
waiting travellers.
Modern Motor Cars.
Four new motor cars of modern construc-
ton are building at Philadelphia, and the
railway officials are expecting them 10 ar
rive at any time They will be equipped
with four fifty horse power motors and
will meet all requirements for comfort.
both in summer and winter. These cars
will be in service on the road within the
next few weeks, and will be followed by a
number of other new motors between no"
and next winter. 1t is also said that the
best of the motor cars now IN service WIN
be equipped with new motors and VIII De
generally overhauled and put in good order
When the double tracking of the road is
completed and the new highway orldge
onened. the Washington, Alexandra and
Nj Vernon Railway Company will have
belt of track connecting Alexandria and
Washington, and it is proposed to run the
trains, in the rush hours of the day, IN
continuous procession. They will run into
the stations at either end, load up and start,
on a schedule so arranged as to do away
with any long waits and the overcrowding
of trains. The train service will then be
frequent and rapid and much OF the causes
of complaint regarding crowding of trains
and delays, will be done away with and 1t
is stated the service will compare favorably
with any street railway in the country.
While nothing was said by the railway
official regarding any improvements at the
power house at Four Mile Run, it is under
stood the plan of Improvement mapped out
calls for a general overhauling of the
engines and dynamos there and the placing
of the plant in the best order for efficient
work The double tracking of the road at
the Alexandria end and the work in this
city is being done by Mr.. D. F. Taylor,
engineer in charge, under the supervision of
Mr. Joseph Colvin, superintendent of the
line.