The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-19
WORLDS GREATEST
 RAILWAY STATION
Grand Central Terminal to Cost
 $780, 1000, 900

It will only be a year and a half now. 1t IS more or less officially an- nounced. before the new Grand Gen. tral railroad terminal in New York will be completed, the largest rail- road In the world.
 The new terminal will have a ca- pacity for handling lO5,000, 600 persons every year. a number greater than the entire population of the United States.
 The passing of the old brown stone station smoke begrimed and gloomy has been matter of many months Few, even of those who weep for the destruction of old landmarks VII shed tear that this build ng has gone down before the march of pro- gress. It is possible now as it has casional glimpse of the vast work that is going on for the building of the new terminal but it is only a. chaos that the ordinary observer can see, even if he secures some excellent van tage point for h;s observations. Great excavations. blastings, steam drills and shovels, beds of concrete, gigan- tic walls, steel beams and other things being hauled here and there by hundreds of workmen furnish a spectacle that makes even the mem- ory of the digging of the subway near Forty-second street and Broad way, once so fascinating a sight to thousands, seem trivial by compari- son.
 It is expected that the Grand Gen. tral improvements will cost about $180, ,000. The Pennsylvania's inn proved terminal will cost about $159,- 100000 when the entire plan is car ried out. Other comparisons between the two terminals perhaps best show the magnitude of each.
 The area of the entire New York Central terminal Is seventy-sx acres, of which approximately seventy will be occupied by railroad tracks. The area of the Pennsylvania's yards at the station at Seventh avenue is twenty-three acres. The amount of the excavation in each case is the same. 5000, 900 cubic yards. two-thirds of that taken out at Forty-second street being rock. The length of the tracks in the hole provided for the Grand Central term nal is thirty-two miles. of which eight miles will be given up to the sixty-seven tracks in will be storage space for 1,149 cars. The old Grand Central had space for only 366 cars. The large space in the yards make it possible to reduce in large measure the number of trains to be sent back through the tunnel to the Mott Haven yards for clean ing and reversing. This means that there VII be greater freedom of movement for regular trains through the tunnel.
 At the Grand Central it is figured that two hundred trains can be d S patched or received in an hour. This schedule of three and third trains a minute Sis made possible by using three of the four tracks leading from the terminal under Park avenue in one direct on. Apparently it is pur- posed when necessity arises to utilize the tracks in this manner for the in- ward bound traffic in the morning rush hours and in the same manner for therush service in the evening. The maximum train capacity of the Pennsvlvan station and tubes is IA loaded trains an hour.
 A network of reopened streets two miles in length is to be constructed over the Grand Central yards, and ultimately 1t is expected that the whole area will re covered with a group of monumental build 'ngs treat ed in a harmonious architectural de- sign. comprising unique center in New York.
 The maximum height of the Grand Central term nal will be 105 feet and it will spread out underground over an area of approximately 35S 000
 
 This hole will be forty-five feet deep. The waiting rooms and concourses are practically duplicated for the through and the suburban traffic on two levels. there being a concourse and a waiting room for each class of passengers. The building will not have this full size on the Park ave- nue level, for it will be only 500 by ROO feet Park avenpe is to flow around it's sides and turn it into an architectural island. Beneath the street surface will be a port. on of the station.
 The main concourse will be 300 feet long 120 feet wide and 100 feet high. The great waiting room of the Penn sylvan'a station Is 314 feet long, 10S feet wide and 150 feet high. The New York Central terminal has two track levels the suburban. with twenty-five tracks. beneath the express provided with forty-two tracks. Beneath the lower. tracks is to be a subway for the movement of baggage. There VII therefore be four levels. the track levels being below the street level It has been figured that 30.0oO persons could stand in the concourses and waiting rooms of the station which IS to be built without serious overcrowd- .ng. and that 70 900 could pass through it in an hour on their way from the trains. At present about 60 900 per sons pass through the station in the course of a dav. The possible rate of movement throueh the portals and