The Washington times., 1905-09-14
ELECTRIC RAILWAY
NEAR COMPLETION
GeOrgetOWn-Great Falls Sec
tiOn.
WILL OPERATE BY WINTER
Modern Powerhouse and Large Car
Barn-Cars Used Will Be
Comfortable.

The Georgetown-Great Falls line of the
Great Falls and Old Dominion Railway
Company, which has been in course OF
construction for several years. is now
fast nearing completion. No definite
date can be set for the opening of the
road for traffic, but that cars will be
in operation before winter is almost a
certainty.
Ten miles of the road is complete. The
track has been laid and the poles for the
wires which will furnish the current
are in place The work on the power
house and the car barn is being. pushed
with vigor, and an extra force is short
az to be added TO the present working
force
The Georgetown end of the line is at
Thirty-sixth and NJ streets northwest,
at the Washington end of the Aqueduct
bridge. The track across the bridge is
complete, and all the track is nearly
ready for the cars within four miles of
Great Falls.
The grading for the line was made
for double track, but at present only
a single track has been laid.
Powerhouse Fireproof.
The powerhouse which is being built
of concrete re-enforced by steel is To-
Gated just across the Aqueduct bridge,
in Rosslyn, about 200 yards from the
bridge on the banks OF the Potomac
The house viii be fireproof, no wood
being used in :ts construction 1t is
Fiesigned on the most modern plans in
s'ogue in America and Europe. Owing
TO the amount of concrete being used
in the construction of the building, IT
completed.
s The house will be nearly square In
shape, its dimensions being eighty-four
by ninety feet Its height win be forty
Fwo feet. The smokestack will be i25-
feet high and will be eight feet in diam
ster. The building Will be furnished
with the most modern machinery. The
Westinghouse Electrical Manufacturing
company VIII have the Quitting of the
building.
Westinghouse Parsons turbine engines
OF 500 lEilowatts each will be used A
substation powerhouse viii be built
about ten miles up the road. This sub
s'ation win be built along the same
lines as the larger powerhouse.
The car barn. which will be completed
in about two weeks, is situated about 20
yards 10 the right OF the Virginia end
OF tie Aqueduct bridge. just opposite
the brewery. This shed will be J59 feet
long ana about for5y-five feet wide. The
height at eacn end will be sixteen
feet ant twenty-five feet at the peak (
The barn will be OF wood frame COW
ered with galvanized iron. Three car
tracks will be laid in the shed and II
viii De capable or housing all the cars I
Of the Lire.
Comfortable Cars.
The cars will be made along the most
Improved lines and Will be equipped with
The latest Improvements for speed and
safety. Each car will be equipped with
<0O-horsepower motors, and will have
airbrakes. electric heaters. and double
yestibules.
IL IS said that the cars will be able
10 make forty-two miles an hour, but II
IS not expected that this speed viii be
adopted in the schedule
The Westinghouse. Church. Kerr Com
pany. of New York. has the contract
fer the entire equipment OF the road in
Guiding the laying of the tracks and
constructing the powerhouse and car
shed.
= Rain has somewhat retarded the work |
,oa the road, bur every clear day now
large forces are pushing the work with !
ali possible speed.
When the road IS completed. IL will open /
up to Washingtonians one OF the pret- /
fiest parts Of Virginia. the scenery along l
F1he line of the road being very attrac- !
i've. An elevation of 40 feet the high !
,est point around Washington. viii be 1
reached within a few minutes ride
There are sorne six OF seven bridges !
son the road. crossing wagon roads and 1
ecreeks. etc. and the one over Difficult /
run. Fairfax county. is about coo feet :
long aad 100 feet high.