The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-23
new HAVEN RAILROAD IS BUILDING
LARGE new ENGLAND FREIGHT YARD
New Classification Yard Will Overcome Overcrowding at
Present Terminals and Prevent Delay and Conges
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The receiving and departure yards
will be a big step for the New Haven
in complying with the intentions Of
the Adamson Eight Hour Law. De-
lays will be practically eliminated at
terminals, either arriving or depart
ing In connection with the train
yard, increases will be made in the
tracks at the engine terminal. A 16-
stall roundhouse will be built.
Included in the plans for the new
yard is a large merchandise transfer
that will hold three or four hundred
cars. Here will be centralized the
transferring of less than carliad
freight considerably less, resulting in
delay as we'll as two or three hand
lings. Under the new arrangement
promptness and one handling will be
possible. Motor trucks and trailers
| will be used on the platform to fac1l1-
| tate the transfer of freight from one
! car to another.
A distinctive feature of the plans
| for the new yard is the separation
of grades at Air Line Junction, a point
| that has heretofore been a, bad. One
| for delaying trains. The westbound
| Shore Line passenger trains will be
| carried overhead all the tracks. The
| freight will pass underneath in the
middle The northbound passenger
line will pass underneath and around
the east side of the yard. Under this
| arrangement through passenger and
through freight trains will not cross
each other at any point at or in the
vicinity of New Haven.
In similar manner, the freight
| tracks leaving the Shore Line east OF
the junction will be separated from
! the grade of the westbound passenger
track Shore Line trains will also
cross over the grade of the Air Line
| and northbound passenger line to
4 Springfield and Hartford, and also
over the freight track on which the
| freight trains from New York and
1.-THE Poughkeepsie Bridge route enter
| the yard.
The New Haven Road, in anticipa'
ton of the needed Improvement a
New Haven, purchased nearly all the
i property required some time ago. A
the present time five steam shoveh
are in operation and 1t is hoped I'd
have a few of the tracks of the frs
cluster completed within three
months. This will Immediately large
ly aid the men working on freigh
trains. 1t will give them an oppor
|
4 leave their trains on yard tracks, ant
go to their homes thereby avoiding
long and serious delays. At the pres
ent time they are often required t.
remain on their trains on the mali
tracks at and in the, vicinity of New
| Haven waiting for passenger trains t.
= get by out of the way or the remova
of whatever the difficulty might be.
This improvement being under
taken by the New Haven Railroad
will have a vital effect upon the eff
cheney of the service of the compan,
and is consequently being pushed a
} rapidly as possible. ii It was under
! taken pursuant to the program adopt
ed with the commencement of in
creasing traffic in New England.
a will mean the enlargement of the ca
pacity of the road and the improve
ment of the service of the compan
so that it will fully meet all of ,th
demands of the, travelling public an
. of the business interests.