New-York tribune., 1910-11-26
BIG NEW STATION READY.
Pennsylvania Begins Service to
West aud South Tomorrow.
BUSY WITH DUMMY TRAINS
Regular Schedules Being Kept Up
Now for Training of Crews
, in New Work.

Al 1z:O2 O'Clock tonight. or. more ex-
ecfIy. tomorrow morning, the Perth Am
hoy local viii carry It's first consignment
of belated theatregoers out Of the new
PENNSYLVANIA Station. at Seventh avenue
and SD street. Manhattan
II will he the first passenger train to
resve the new station in other than the
5cnc Island direction. and il viii be fol-
scvped In twenty-eight minutes by the
Southern Express, the first through train
.o carry passengers out Of New York for
she South and West over the Penns--l-
,-o,ia lines. TO the Washington Express.
cue here AT 1880 a m. viii go the honor
n bsing the first Southern train to ar
rive IN the new station
These incidents viii mark the fulflment
,f the Pennsylvania Railroads Ions
r-snding ambition to land its passengers in
- very midst Of the nearly six million
.noonIA that live within a twenty-miIe
ss5irs Of the City Hail. and the compile
xson Of the station that it has built for
CHS rl1rposa marks a no less important
ora IN the history of New York.
7,ba immense structure covers eight
%cres thus occupying more ground than
s7v other building ever before construct
ed RI one time in the history Of the world.
T. ss 74 feet long and $50 feet wide The
average height above the street is 60 feet.
while the maximum is 15S feet. IT takes
pbout 500 electric arcs and 1900 incan-
x=esoents &c light the building
Though tomorrow viii be the first oppor-
.,-;tv that the public viii have to make
rsa Of this great Improvement, dummy
trains have been running through the tun-
reis for the last three or four days on reg
..lar schedule for the purpose of faTfaiIiariz-
tnC the employees with the new system
Not all of these trains, however, have
teen entirely dummy. one OF them pulled
ont yesterday afternoon with a small crowd
Of newspaper men slowed away on the
hack platform. under the direction Of the
stationmaster, ". ". Eagan.
They saw things. these newspaper men
Every so often through the long length of
the tube signal lights flashed by them. II
an engineer attempts TO run by one of these
signals when il IS set, his train is stopped
automatically by the shutting off OF his
current
At each signal is a telephone, TO which
rhe conductor has the key, that connects
with the main signal station. Only when
the signal station has released the train
may il proceed upon its way
Fifteen minutes brought the party to
Harrison, \. J.. where the almost dummy
train went through the process Of chang
ing locomotives Il took about two minutes
70 uncouple the electric machine and put
on the steam engine. The distance to Har-
TisoG is nine miles. The officials say they
can 90 il in nine minutes II q. train is late
Forty powerful motors Will operate the
srains over The electrified system. Each
one IS twice as strong as a steam Iocomo-
tive and costs over three times as much
They were built at the Altoona shops Of
The railroad and equipped with WResting-
touse motors for the sum of $4,000 apiece
Back IN the station the favored few
cnarvelled al the hidden wonders of the
place. The arrival and departure Of trains
are made known to employees in nine diff
1erent parts of the building through the
medium Of the telautogTaph. The two
tracks that run under the river increase in
1Enher TO twenty-one before the station IS
reached. These deposit their passengers on
eieren platforms. from each of which an
elevator and Two stairways lead to the
grand concourse-
Coincident with the formal opening Of the
Pennsylvania service the Southern Rail
way viii gladden. the hearts Of those an
1ually migrating 20 warmer clines by run
ming its electrically lighted. all-Eteel ex
press trains direct frcrn the metropolis TO
an important Southern points without
ferry transfer or change Of cars