Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-23
NEW ELECTRIC LINE
WAsHINGToN-BA ROAD
IS NEARLY COMPLETED.

Plans have been made for the railway
station which is to be built by the electric
line between this city and Baltimore, which
is nearing completion. The new building
is to be at the northeast corner of 18th
and II streets opposite the power house of
the Columbia railway, as previously stated
in The Star. The cars will approach 1t
between platforms, roofs being over the
platforms, but not over the tracks Back
OF them viii be the waiting rooms and
ticket Offices
The actual operation of the road for
passenger service is set for November 18th,
on which date the people of the two cities
can exchange visits aboard the electric cars
consuming seventy-two minutes in travel
ing between the two points.
The cars will resemble the Pullman coach,
but will be smaller. They will have a
seating capacity for sixtytwo passengers,
and Will accommodate many more. The
platforms will be wide and inclosed. 1t Is
the intention of the company to paint the
cars the color of the ordinary Pullman
coach 1t is planned to give both local
and express service. The express cars will
be able to make the run in seventy-two
minutes. fifteen minute schedule will be
observed. 1t is probable that the cas- will
be operated in trains whenever travel war
rants it. The equipment of each of the
express cars is sufficiently powerful. 1t Is
sad, to haul a train of five ordinary pas
senger coaches at a speed of forty-five
miles an hour. For local service lower
power cars will be used.
Double Tracks
The new line will be doubla-t racked its
entire length, and there will be many
sidings, to enable the locals to be side
tracked while the express cars pass. The
electrical equipment of the express cars
is such, the builders assert, that they can
make speed OF not less than sixty miles
an hour when running alone.
The new company Will not have power
plant of its own, but will purchase It's
current from the Potomac Electric Power
Company, which is erecting a power house
just outsida of the capital. There will be
several substations along the route.
At Odenton the company recently pur-
chased fifteen acres of land, and W II erect
shops and carhouse. The branch to An
napolis leaves the main line at this point.
and is about fourteen miles in length. 1t Is
now operated as a steam road and is sin
gle tracked. The company plans to double
track the branch line later on, but for the
present there will be only a few sidings
built to enable the cars to pass each other.
The line Is now being electrified as rapid y
as possible
On the line between here and Baltimore
are four bridges over rivers and twenty-five
bridges over roads.
The bridges are over Gwynns Falls. the
Big and Little PatuXent rivers and the Pa
tapSco river. There Will be no grade cross
ings and where the line intersects a road
It will either go over or under the driveway.
The abutments for all the bridges to be
built for this purpose are of concrete.
Construction by Syndicate.
The Washington, Baltimore and Annapo-
lis Electric railway is being built by syn
dictate managed by Messrs George T.
Bishop and John Sherwin of Cleveland Mr.
Bishop, who is president of the company has
had wide experience in the construction of
interurban systems and believes great flu
ture is before the Washington. Baltimore
and Annapolis. 1t hes been his experience
with interurDan trolley lines that they in
crease the business between cities from d
to - per cent the first two years. He was
interested in line between Fort Worth
and Dallas, Tex, On which the travel was
increased nearly 500 per cent in three
years. He has found that the interurban
line creates new business, and he has gone
on record as stating that the first year
the new line is opened IT will bring to this
city 100000 passengers who do not come
here now. Both passengers and freight
to be carried.
The route selected for the line parallels
that of the Pennsylvania, railroad into
Washington, although it is said to be short
ell by several miles.
The entire line viii be thirty-tilree miles
in length, or more Than seven miles shorter
than the routes followed by the steam
roads.