Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-25
NEW HAVEN ROADS
 BIG FREIGHT YARD.
New Classification Yard at New Ha- ven Will Overcome Overcrowdng at Present Terminals.

| The New York, New Haven and
 Hartford Railroad company has start | ed work on a new classification yard l at Montowese, or Cedar Hill as it is 1 generally called, near New Haven. The | construction of this yeard is consid l cred by railroad officials as one of the l most important undertakings of the | New Haven in its programme to en- | large the capacity of the road.
 When completed, which will be
 along in the spring of 1913, the Mon- | towese yard will be the largest and most complete in New England, and in | comparison with the character and volume of business handled. 1t will | rank with the great railroad yards l of the country.
 The plans for the new yard have
 been drawn with the idea of increas- ing and improving the service of the
 New Haven Railroad so that it will fully meet all the demands of the travelling public and the commercial interests. The road will be able to handle the peak load at all times with out delay or congestion. for present terminal and main line tracks will be materially relieved of much of their present burden.
 The new classification yard is to be located near New Haven because of the relative importance of that city to the whole New Haven system. It Is similar to the hub of a wheel. I'm
 portant lines radiate from New Ha-
 ven to New York; to the west over
 the Poughkeepsie Bridge route; to
 Waterbury and Winsted: via the Can
 al Line to Holyoke, Northampton and
 other points; to Hartford and Spring
 field: via the Air Line to Middletown,
 Willirnantic and points in the north
 east; and over the low grades of the
 Shore Line to New Haven. Providence
 and Boston, and other points in Rhode
 Island and Eastern Massachusetts.
 The essential purpose of this huge
 classification yard will be to receive
 trains from all routes made up of cars
 for all destinations. In the yard the
 cars will be sorted out and made up
 into trains for their proper destination.
 All trains will leave the yard in sta
 tion order for all the important des-
 tinations many of them being straight
 made up trains for each of the more important commercial centers. Such classification in q single yard equip
 ped to handle such a huge task will overcome the over -crowding of term inals and yards at the gateways and other points, which is the main cause Of restriction and delay in the move
 ment of freight on the New Haven. The New Haven originally was a road with two main arteries. one extending from New York to Boston, and the other from New York to Springfield. For the handling of freight for points on the east end of the system. power and crews were changed at Midway. With the gradual development of the system and of other lines, notably the Central New England route via the Poughkeepsie Bridge, the handling of freight became more complex and diff fcTlt. Yards and terminals were built or enlarged as the demands of individual sections or centers grew. The purpose of such yards and term inals, however is to handle primarily the business local to their location, that is, traffic which is destined to or which originates at the point where the yard is located.
 With the enormous and urtorecedent- l ed increase in business that develop ed in the latter part of 1915, there was