New-York tribune., 1910-06-21
GREAT WORK HERE
BUILDING NEW STATIONS
Monumental Engineering Fsats
Cause Ne1g Workers to Gasp.

Nev York City is full, IN a way, Of object es-
sons of the enormous efforts railroads IN tnfs d
err era make to satisfy the demands OF the traasc
that nours in upon them. AS a matter Of fact they
have to do more than satisfy the demands that
are now upon them; they have to look far fs
ahead into the future, and build accordingly Ras
roads nowadays have to be made elastic, capable
of being stretched to fit the emergency taas nsy
not come for years but is just as sure to make s
a1neaxanee as death and taxes, TO use an AZ
cient phrase.
And that's why two railroads have opened Eads
in the very heart Of the city great camps OF e@-
struetion that make the man who has been %
panama wonder whether he has not suddenly been
swept back all unknowingly to the CuiebFa at
The New York Central realized years ago mat ~
terminal station handsome and apparently eonf
nodious as il was, would not long snIhce 10 hahu'
the traffic that it would have TO look after, and as
road took the bull by the horns and prepared paas
for a station little less than monumental
And the Pennsylvania, seeking entrance dire'
into the city of New York, worked out its vs
scheme for a new railroad terminal heres III
voTvine as il did The construction or tns se'
tunneIs under the Hudson and the East River am
countless engineering feats that need not De oe'
scribed here in detail. These are projects uA
would have staggered the railroads OF Ie" yel'
ago, but now, so common IS 1t 10 e1pee' sl-
things, few persons IeSdru d. a. 0i-
the work that is being done
The New York Central project while u ISL ! ~ ~
vav so big. is stin in some respects g0od @ e'-
the harder of the two. AEe IN its neouioes % S'z
it certainly has a power OF fascination tnd' -
other, carried on smoothly and systeHateaiiy ave-
from the crowd, lacks
JIp at the Grand Central incoming psIsse''s1
have for a year or more seen the familiar =
Grand Central melting away, until toward 1he - =
there was only a shell left, with couple Oh ua'N
Now even that much Is gone, and the WofA :
transferrine. the business of a pretty big sfan-
has been completed. an entirely new lehp''s s
station. built on two levels, high and low H@sI'
replaced the historic old structure
Auy one sufficiently curious could see uhs no, %
as it was done, and a mighty interesting ssH-
has been First the engineers gOugsd out gre
strip of land with their steam shoveis ana ~.. .
pressure drills and their blasts, and then prep~S
the rough places for the tracks. That had y :
done to make ready for the trains from the o'a'
crowded tracks in the old station Then d 'e1s &
rary station had to be fixed up, and Ie" JON
at first were shifted over.
Thus at first the motion was all eastward lI-
as the new trackage grew, the most eastern 20
of the old station were torn out and Efoie - :. :
walton went on there So before very i0ho J,
were rippins, tracks cut in the old station anu
the same time practically building new trasAs s
westward from the new Stauon to"dAu
There are tracks now at the western ex'ehs'O- ~
the temporary station where few months &s0
gentle steam shovel was tearing out the SAf'A :
ton masses. -
Right now, in and all around the tens OF Nv
sands OF people who use the terminal ddA5 =
shifts Of thousand men apiece are worA's
hard as they to get the work done M0le
would simply get in one anothers way anu = - y
would be no use in having them or they "oD ~
there There never was a much haruer p'. .ss
cause so much Of ii had to be done m u' .sa
OF heavy traffic with the absolute requirehen.
that traffic should not be hampered tn any "A'.
There are about four hundred train m'ss'.s :
a day in that yard, and at the time when us's -
least trafic-ordinariIy. that is-between Vn ,-s
in the morning and daybreak-work anu 80 sss
tion trains have to be considered AS'0o .,s
building and wreeking work, the amohht u r
vation to be done on such a Job IS enofinO NJ
at the Grand Central they are ripping Iooso ~ vs.
seven thousand cubic yards of nliddie NO" ,su-
every week and getting it ready to DO d ic.
road terminal instead Of what the diggefs
"a hole in the ground