The Detroit times., 1915-12-09
H. G. Kelley Gives De-
tails of COntempla-
ted improvements
TO TRIPLE FREIGHT
HOUSE FACILITIES
Warming Room and
Cooling House
Included

president OF the Grand Trunk rail-
way system, left for Montreal,
Thursday morning. after having ex-
tended his visit to Detroit nearly
day longer than he originally ex-
| pected. He came In Wednesday
morning. with plans all made to 60
| out Wednesday afternoon. but after
he. had taken lunch at the ID. A. &.
with members Of the Board OF Com.
merce transportation committee
and met some OF the big shippers,
| he began to get more intimately in
terested in Detroit matters. with
the result that instead OF being put
on and afternoon train pr. KelIey's
car went on a siding and he decided
to stay over night.
Wednesday evening thers wss .
further conference with Detroit
shippers. the noon lunch talk hav-
Ing lasted most OF the afternoon.
The result was that when Mr.. Kel-
ley went away M had about as init
mate an understanding OF the needs
of his roads Detroit customers as
man car get unless he lives with
them all the time.
Mr.. Kelley's statement. Wednes-
day noon. was that the Grand Trunk
would maxi all the improvements
In Detroit tnat II could finance.
Those who participated in the con-
ferences came away fairly well sat.
isfed that Mr.. Kelley would not
oE;y see that all the improvements
the road can finance areI made, but
would also strain point TO get as
big financial allowance as pos
siblc. In other words. they feel that
they have Mr.. Kelley very much In
terested.
The one definite Improvement
that Mr.. Kelley has agreed to is
going TO make big difference In
the capacity OF the Grand Trunk
for handling Detroit freight The
road, now has capacity for handling
hut SIS cars At one time in its
freight hopses. Sixty OF these cars
can be handled in the terminal
houses. 40 In the outbound house
and 20 In the inbound house. The
new freight houses and the changes
to he made at the same time in the
old houses will increase the capac-
ity OF the inbound house to So
cars and of the outbound house to
76. making the total capacity OF
the terminals 161 cars instead OF
so.
There will be transfer platform
Is feet vide and 1000 feet long
between the houses. This means
a lot to Detroit wholesalers and
jobbers, many Of whom receive car
lots of freight and reship IL In less
than car lots Immediately. without
taking II away from the railroad
terminal at all. But they have been
able to do mighty little OF this sort
OF resbipping over the Grand Trunk.
The team track capacity OF the
Grand Trunk Is now 346 cars, OF
which 72 are at the terminal and
the rest scattered around the town.
New team tracks "spotting" 75 cars
arc planned with the new freight
houseA which means that the team
track facilities down town will be
more than doubled.
In the new house will be a warm
ing room for perishable freight. and
cooling house as we'll. with mod
ern up-to-date ofices for freight
agent, cashier and ONCE force. with
ONCE bonded warehouse officials
and carriage agents.
"How about equipment to handle
the freight when the new houses
and team tracks are built" Mr..
Kelley was asked. rs there going
to be shortage OF cars and loco
motives?"
There will be no trouble on that
&C ore with the Grand Trunk he
replied, with a trace OF pride. The
Grand Trunk has bought 10000 new
freight cars and over 200 OF the
best type heavy duty locomotives
IN the last two years, We are not
bothered with deficiency In rolling
stock ~ much as some OF the
roads"