New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-04-20
COS TLY Rail way
CONS RUCT ton
Features Of Pennsylvania New
Terminal and Tunnel System.
MANY MILLIONS ALREADYSPEN1

For f6.5 Miles of Track Near New York
$102,oo0,000 Has Been Expended and
$58,oo0.ooo More Will Be Spent-sta-
ton In Manhattan Worlds LARGEST.
The Pennsy lyania railroad opened to
public inspection for the first time the
other day 1876 miles of the most ex.
pensive construction work, foot for
foot ever attempted-namely, the tun.
mel and terminal Improvement from
Harrison, N. j.. to Sunnyside, N. Y
The average cost of mile of steam
railroad is about $4,000; the cost per
mile of the tunnel and terminal i'm
proVement has been more than S9,6OO.-
GOO. The company has thus far ex-
pended $1O20OO.OOO and will expend
$16O, 100000 before the Improvement
is completed. Train service is due to
begin late in June or early in july
with an initial card of 1000 trains
daily
The boroughs of Brooklyn and
Queens, with population Of 100000,
will then have direct connection by
rail for the first time with the south
and west. Eventually, by the construc-
ton of the New York connecting line,
which at the cost of $12.OOO,OO0 addi-
t1onal will bridge the East river at
Hell Gate, linking the Pennsylvania
system with the New York, New Ha-
ven and Hartford system, it will be
possible to travel all rail from any
point in the west and south to any
point in New England
Trains Run In Slot.
The tunnel division is electrically op-
Grated, and the third rail carrying the
current is the heaviest ever rolled, $50
pounds to the yard. The cars are built
of steel. The tunnel itself is of con.
crete. The trains run in a slot, as it
were, between solid concrete benches.
and in event of a collision or a derail-
ment the cars could not burn, and the
train could neither ram the walls of
the tunnel nor upset because Of the
benches at either side.
The new Pennsylvania terminal in
New York city is the largest in the
world and one Of the handsomest ever
constructed. Including the subsurface
yards, 1t has an area Of twenty-eight
acres, a trackage Of twenty-one miles.
and the passenger platforms alone are
21,5e0 feet, or nearly four miles long.
The tracks are forty feet below the
street surface, and the station is divid-
ed into three levels. The Seventh ave
nue. entrance, for foot passengers only,
leads to the main waiting room through
an arcade 225 feet long by As feet
wide, which will be fanked on both
sides by shops and booths. At the far
Their end of the arcade are the restau-
| rant, lunch rooms and cafe, and beyond
are the general waiting room and con-
course
On the first level below the street is
the station proper. whose general wait
ing room is said to be the largest in
the world. 1t is PIT by 1O3 feet Ad-
joining this on the west are two sub
sidiary waiting rooms So by 100 feet
for men and women, provided with
seats and opening into retiring rooms.
On the same level with the general
waiting room is the main baggage
room with $50 feet of frontage. Bag
gage is delivered and taken away
through a special subway. From the
baggage room trunks are delivered to
the tracks below by motor trucks and
elevators. Motor cabs are to be sta
toned on this level. The concourse,
200 feet wide, extends the entire width
of the station and under the adjoining
streets.
This concourse is the vestibule to
the tracks. Stairs descend from it to
each of the train platforms on the
track level, and from that level this
part Of the station is open to the roof,
forming courtyard $40 feet by 21O
feet, rooted by iron and glass. In adj
dition to the entrances to the con-
course from the waiting room there
are also direct approaches from Thir-
ty-frst and Thirty third streets.
Auxiliary to the main concourse.
which is for departing passengers only,
and located between it and the tracks
is subconcourse sixty feet wide,
sort Of mezzanine platform, which will
he used for exit purposes only This
exit concourse is eighteen feet above
the tracks, but is connected with the
track level by two stairways and one
elevator from each platform. From it
staircases and inclines lead directly to
/ the street
Unique Among, Railway Stations.
The northern side Of the station ex-
tending along Thirty third street is for
the use of the Long Island railroad.
and separate entrances and exits are
provided so that the Long Island traf-
fic can be handled Independently.
The stoneWork of the station in
closes eight acres Of ground A total
of $4,000 cubic feet Of granite have
been utilized in the construction and