Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26

side Of the station. To avoid conflict be-
tween passengers and baggage on the train
platforms, certain platforms will be set
aside exclusively for use in handling bag
gage.
The size of the passenger concourse or
lobby will by far exceed anything ever built
for similar purpose. 1t will be $50 feet
long by 100 feet wide and be covered by an
arched ceiling in single span decorated
with panels and part of which will trans
nit the light. The lobby will be divided
by the usual fence, providing a width of
about eighty feet for handling outgoing
passengers, while the remaining fifty feet
between the fence and ends of tracks will
afford ample facilities for the passengers
arriving on trains.
The Train Yard.
The train yard will be $50 feet wide, one
half being located on either side of the
center line of Delaware avenue, which was
taken as the axis of the terminal. On the
east side 200 feet will be used to accommo-
date the business handled over the southern
connection by way of the tunnel under list
street, the plaza and the station. The re-
naming $50 feet. which will be on a higher
level will have tracks arranged for hand
ling the business of the Baltimore and
Ohio and the Pennsylvania railroads be-
tween Washington and New York and that
of the Baltimore and Ohio between Wash
ington and points west.
When the union station act was passed by
Congress in February, 1903, the space
which will be occupied by the terminal was
covered with dwellings, warehouses, coal
yards, freight yards and sheds and the
main tracks and sidings of the Washing
ton and Metropolitan branches of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad. All the buildings
were removed preparatory to starting con-
struction within ten months after the pas
sage of the act.
The improvement necessitated the Balti-
Ohio removing
the new site selected is located between list
and I'd and NJ and n streets. In this
space six lines of trestle, each about 600
feet in length and eighteen feet high, were
constructed, having a capacity in all of
about 10000 tons. There is a macadamiZed
driveway thirty-three feet wide for each
trestle. The bins cover three-fifths of the
yards area and the driveways the remain
ing two-fifths. The yard is provided with a
system of tile drains.
The new freight terminal is being con-
structed at New York and Florida avenues
and will be most complete for handling all
the business furnished by the city of Wash
ington. About 80 per cent of this bust
ness is inbound and 20 per cent outbound.
Washington is not producing city, but its
rapid growth and good character OF build
ings make it great market for all kinds
of building material, which is handled in
carload lots. In view of this, team or bulk
unloading tracks will be provided to ac-
commodate about 400 cars, while the house
team and house tracks will be divided into
three groups each having a switching
track of some length, which will permit
several yard engines to work the groups
without one interfering with the other. The
storage yard will be divided into three sec
tons and so arranged that the switching
can be done with the least interference.
Equal to the Best.
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 joint passenger coach yard,
round house, shops, engine yards and re-
pair tracks. Two tracks between the ter
minal train yard and the round house, will
be set aside for handling engines and cars
between the station, coach yard and round
house without interfering with the move
ment of trains over the main passenger
tracks. At Florida avenue all tracks will
be at the same elevation. From that point
north and eastward the Washington branch
connections of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road and the Magruder connection of the
Pennsylvania railroad will ascend at the
rate of 90 per cent; the coach yard tracks
at 05 per cent, and the Metropolitan branch
connections of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad at OF per cent. These differences