The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
GOTHAM STATION
WORLD s WONDER
Pennsylvania Terminal Opened
and Statue of Cassatt, Orig
inator, Unveiled.
TRAINS OPERATE UNDER
EAST AND HUDSON RIVERS
AIight Underground, and Ele-
vatOrs Land Passengers in
Heart of City.

The Pennsylvania company's $3.50,
000,00 terminal and tunnel project
the climax of the stupendous in railroad
was officially declared practically com
pleted recently.
| Two private cars. bearing President
McCrea, the directors and other officials
of the Pennsylvania system, left Phila
delphia Mt 80 O'Clock on the day of
the opening, and two hours later shot
from the tube that runs under the Hud-
son river into the station that occu-
pies twenty eight acres of ground in
the heart Of the metropolis.
A. j. Cassatt Statue.
A reception followed in the station
at which the directors presented to the
PENNSYLVANIA road a bronze statue of
the late President A. J. Cassatt, whose
efforts had so much to do with the in
ception of the great terminal system.
The presentation was made by G., De.
Witt Cuyler and the speech of accept
ance was made by President McCrea.
The terminal station, which in a few
weeks will be thrown open to the pub
lie, is the largest in the world. The
tunnel that leads to it and which ulti-
mately will give unbroken rail connec-
tlon from all points In the south and
west to New England, is an engineer
ing wonder of steel tubes and concrete
walls. 1t costs about $25 600 mile to
construct the ordinary steam railroad.
The cost per mile of the New York ter
minal and tunnel has been in excess of
50 100000.
Into Greater New York.
With the opening of the tunnels
through to Long Island the boroughs
lntion of ! 100000, will have direct con
necton by rail for the first time with
the south and west. Eventually. by the
construction of the New York connect
ing line, which, at the cost of S12,-
100000 additional, will bridge the East
river at He'll Gate, linking the Pennsyl-
vania system with the New York. New
Haven and Hartford system, it will be
possible to travel by rail from the New
Jersey shore to the mainland northeast
of Manhattan island
The Pennsylvania tunnel proper
starts through the side of Bergen hill,
behind Jersey City and, diving under
the bed Of the Hudson, comes to the
surface again at Tenth avenue and
Thirty third street. Manhattan.
The tunnel division is electrically op.
current is the heaviest ever rolled-150
pounds to the yard. The bars are built
of steel: the tunnel itself is Of con.
crete. The trains run in slot, as 1t
were. between solid concrete benches,
and in event of a collision or derall-
ment the cars could not burn. and the
train could neither ram the walls of
the tunnel nor even upset, because of
the benches at either side.
Story Told in Figures.
Told In cold figures and measurements
the story OF the terminal and tunnel
Area CTenth avenue to normal tunnel
section east OF Seventh ayenuc). 2S acres.
Length OF track. 16 miles.
Number of standing tracks at station,
Length OF platforms adjacent to pas
senger trains. 81 5000 feet
Number Number Of & passenger piatfGprm1s; pn1ns, IL
level IN. II. Wy. . feet.
Total excavation required, 100000
cubic yards
Number of baggage and express lifts. 25.
Length of baggage express trucking
and pipe subways, 5000 feet.
Weight OF street bridging steel, $4,000
tons.
Weight of station building steel. 81
Weight of steel in service building
2.437 tons.
Number of lineal feet OF streets and
avenues carried on bridging. 4,a00, or
an area of about acres.
Dimensions OF passenger station build
ing.
Seven hundred and eighty-four feet
long. 430 feet wide; average height above
street, 60 feet; maximum height above
street 153 feet.
Dimensions of main waiting room: Two
hundred and seyenty-scven feet long. 103
feet wide. $50 feet high.
lf ht,p
dred and forty feet long, 21O feet wide.
Concrete required for retaining. walls.
foundations, street bridging and sub
structure. 10000 cubic yards.
Loading per square foot on avenue
Maximum loading per square foot on
bridging east of Seventh avenue. S tons.
Number Of columns supporting station
Greatest weight on one column. 1858
tons,
Number of buildings removed on ter
Dimensions of service power plant on
Thirty-frst street. $50 by 100 feet,
Boiler capacity OF service power plant
(utimate). 5000 horsepower.
Maximum capacity OF all tunnels In
trains per hour 144.
Storage capacity OF station yard tracks,
$50 cars.
proposed initial daily service of P, r.
Proposed initial daily service of L. l.
R r trains. 600
Length Of river (tube) tunnels (single
track miles). SIS miles,
Length of land tunnels (single track
miles) s.S miles.
Length of run, Bergen portal to Long
is!ana T6t. Pertab Pengtb Of trnek in tunnels ex
elusive OF yard tracks in station, l65
miles.
The tunnels and terminal will be open
for traffic about September 5