New Britain herald., 1917-08-22

taken. An engine is attached to the train and the train and engine crew can then take the train away prompt ly.
 16 Stall Roundhouse
 The receiving and departure yards will, be 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. Tn 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 large merchandise transfer that will hold three or four hundred cars. Here will be centralized the transferring of less than carload freight. At present this is done at various points where the facilities are inadequate and the amount of freight considerably less, resulting in delay as well as two or three handlings. Under the new arrangement prompt ness and one handling will be pos sible. Motor trucks and trailers will be used on the platforms to facilitate 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, 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 north bound messenger line to Springfield and Hartford and also over the freight track on which the freight trains from New York and l the Poughkeepsie Bridge route enter . the yard.
 The New Haven road, in anticipa- tion of the needed improvement at 1 New Haven, purchased nearly all the | property required some time ago. At the present time five steam shovels are in operation and 1t is hoped to have few of the tracks of the first cluster completed within three months. This will immediately largely aid the men working on freight trains. It will give them an i opportunity to pull in off the main 1 line, leave their trains on yard tracks, and go to their homes, thereby avoid ing long and serious delays. At the present time they are often required i to remain on their trains on the main tracks at and in the vicinity of New 1 Haven waiting for passenger trains to get out of the way or the removal of
 whatever the difficulty might be.
 This improvement being under
 taken by the New Haven railroad
 will have vital effect upon the eff ciency of the service of the company and Is consequently being pushed as
 rapidly as possible. It was under taken pursuant to the program adopt
 ed with the commencement of in-
 creasing traffic in New England. Ii l will mean the enlargement of the ca pacity of the road and the improve
 ment of the service of the company sc
 that it will fully meet all of the de
 mands of the travel1ng public and o1 the business interests.
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