The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-14
HISTORIC OLD LANDMARK
 NOW A RAILROAD STATION
SHELTERS uN- ER-HA A GREAT TERMINALS HOW DIFFICULT LENS WE'RE SOLVED

face lines were brought up to the level of the elevated tracks by rather steep inclines and turned in loops which bring the cars alongside the. station at broad platforms. By this arrange ment free transfers between elevated and surface lines are given here with out check or ticket of any sort; the passenger simply leaves one car. cross es the platform and boards another All the trolley lines, however. do not run up to the upper level, as 1t is necessary to provide a generous sur face car service in Washington Street. The surface trolleys pass under the elevated tracks. transferring their pas sengers by check to the upper plat forms from the street level where tick ct offices and turnstiles, together with q large waiting room, make up what is particularly second station on the surface grade.
 Even larger and buster than the Dudley Street terminal is the huge station at the opposite end of the IL in Sullivan Square, Charlestown. In magnitude this, with it's daily quota of 1000 people, with 600 elevated trains and nearly 1000 surface cars entering and leaving every twenty-four hours over eleven tracks on the elevated level which has incline approaches for the trolleys, as at Dudley Street-and four beneath, certainly stands favorable comparison with the union steam road station of any American city of what the Census Bureau calls the second class. Indeed the resemblance to a great steam railroad station Is most striking. The trainshed is vaulted with steel girders' and lighted with high windows and roof of glass. and the elevated trains enter through wide brick arch trimmed with light stone, while dead end" tracks of the various surface lines are designated with sign boards. much as in the ordinary steam road depot" Waiting rooms with all their conveniences, and news stands. public telephone booths and the offices of various departments of operation occupy the head house, where it is also the company's training school for it's employees.
 Besides these great rapid transit ter minals Boston possesses two large steam railroad stations. one of which. the South Terminal takes rank as physically the largest in the world. The other. the North Union Station. held that distinction when 1t was built, eleven years ago and still ranks among the largest It Is the South Terminal, owever,--occupied by the New York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad, and the Boston and Albany, now one of the New York Centrals lines--that gives visitors coming to Boston from dis tance a realizing sense of the magni- tude of public improvements here The trainshed has a length of 620 feet, a height of 112 feet and width of 570 feet. Beneath thls ample roof four miles of tracks are stretched--enough to hold at one time cars seating 2S,- 900 passengers. More than 5000 cars pass in and out over the stations 2S tracks every day, carrying above 25,- 000,000 passengers year--about the same huber as those accommodated by the smallerl North Station and twice as many as use the Grand Central in New York. where the New Haven road has its other terminal. The average num- Der of trains in the 90 operating hours of each day is upwards of 800 in the winter and still larger during the sum mer season. No other station in the United States handles so many trains. and but two in the world surpass it. both in London. while none anywhere even approaches the terminals physf- cal size-it has yard surface of 35 acres, of which 13 acres are under roof.
 Nor is its size the striking feature of this great traffic exchange It has a unique, two-story. arrangement of tracks. similar to that planned for the new terminals to be put up in New York. which gives it-capacity for hand