The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-04-23
COSTLY RAILWAY
CONSTRUCTION
Features Of Pennsylvania New
Terminal and Tunnel System.
MANY MILLIONS ALREADYSPENT

For 1865 Miles of Track Near New York
$1o2,00o,000 Has Been Expended and
$58,o0o, 900 More Will Be Spent-Sta-
tion In Manhattan Worlds LARGEST.
The Pennsylvania railroad opened to
public inspection for the first time the
other day 16.5 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 a mile of steam
railroad is about $4,000; the cost per
mile of the tunnel and terminal i'm
provement has been more than S9,600,-
GOO. The company has thus far ex-
pended $102, 100000 and will expend
N6O, 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,
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 $12,0OO,000 addi-
tiOnal will bridge the East river at
He'll 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 a 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 slot. as IL
were, between solid concrete benches,
and in event of a collision or 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. it has an area of twenty-eight
acres, a trackage of twenty-one miles.
and the passenger platforms alone are
21 500 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 45 feet
wide, which will be flanked on both
sides by shops and booths. At the far
ther 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
the world. 1t is 277 by 103 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 450 feet of frontage. Bag
gage is delivered and taken away
through 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 ievel. The concourse,
200 feet wide, extends the entire width