Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-05-10
RUMORS OF BIG
TERMINAL HERE
Gould Interests Said to be
Planning Alexandria
Terminal
Sixty Miles Will Bring the Western
Maryland into the City-May
Build Bridge

AleXandrians and citizens of Arl-
ingtOn County are again becoming
exercised over the probability Of the
! Gould Interests extending the West
ern Maryland Railroad through Arl-
I ington CouAty and establishing termi-
nal facilities in this city. Alexand-
dria is the logical location for this
terminal and all the far-Seeing citi-
zenS- are anxiously awaiting the time
when open negotiations will be in or
der. This will mean a great deal in
the realization of a Greater Alexan-
dria.
The Clarendon Chronicle tells of the
coming of this new railroad, about
forty miles of which will be in Viz
ginia, as follows;
Previous to the war surveys had
been made to connect the Washing
ton and Old Dominion Railway from
Great Falls-on-the- Potomac with the
Western Maryland Railroad in Mary
land, at point not far from Rocky
ridge, in Frederick County.
During the past two months the
railroad and coal Interests have got
ten together and plans are about
perfected which assure the coming
into Virginia of one of the most i'm
portant railroad interests in Amer
ica-that of the Goulds, who control
the Western Maryland Railroad and
own and operate the New York Cen
trail Railroad.
The connecting link which must
be built is less than forty miles in
length on the Virginia side and less
than twenty miles long on the Mary
land side The trackage will extend
through Fairfax and LOudoun Coun-
ties to a point near Whites Ferry,
on the Potomac, thence by bridge
across the Potomac and through
Frederick County, the point of con-
nection with the Western Maryland.
Already the Congress of the United
States has passed an act, approved
May %, 1921, authorizing the Wash
ington and Old Dominion Railway to
construct. maintain and operate
bridge and approaches across the
Potomac River az or near Point of
Rocks in Frederick County, Mary
land.
The road will be an important part
of the great Gould system, bringing
coal from the mines IN Pennsylvania,
West Virginia and Maryland direct
to Virginia, landing the coal at deep
water at Alexandria for loading on
Seagoing vessels Alexandria is con-
Structlng wharveS at the. expense of
the municipality to take care of such
traffic, and oil, minerals and other
raw materials will be delivered by
steamer, and, in turn, hauled over
the road to Maryland and elsewhere.
The general line of the road, when
completed, win pass by Mclean
Cherrydale and Rosslyn to Alexan-
dria. " it'll the exception of the short
stretch of traekage in Fairfax and
Loudoun Counties, the Virginia track
age is somplete.
Probably no enterprise in Arlington
County, during the last decade, means
so much for our commercial pros
perity. Certainly no transportation
improvement and terminal facilities
means so much to Alexandria city,
which is ideally situated for deep
sea port and for the rapid distribu-
ton of raw and manufactured pro-
duets.
With the business revival which is
we'll under way, Northern Virginia
is assured of her snare with this great
increase in transportation facilities
now assured.
The Gould interests have long
sought to enter this field, but existing
transportation companies have been
powerful enough 10 prevent it.