Evening star., 1925-07-17
NEW RAIL BRIDGE
PLANNED IN 11-M|LE
ALEXANDRIA LINK
Short Line Will Run to Louqh-
borough Tract West
of Capital.
WILL OPEN AREA HERE
TO COMMERCIAL FIELD
Backers of Project See Inducement
Offered to Industry to Locate
Near Washington.

Eleven miles of railroad, costing
$4,000, 900 and linking the big Cameron
yards at Alexandria with that section
of Washington around the Dalecarlia
reservoir, are soon to be constructed
by the Washington Loughborough
Belt Line and Terminal Co. and a Nir-
ginia corporation now in the process
of formation.
In addition to giving Washington
new connecting link to the busy
freight yards at Alexandria, the project
contemplates the construction of an
other bridge across the Potomac
River, to be located just above the
District line, thus relieving the span
now used by all roads entering Wash
ington from the South of such over
whelming traffic.
Plans Tor the new railroad line,
which is expected TO open a new sec
ton of Washington to commercial
progress, were outlined today by AL
bert w. Walker. president of the AL
Ian Z. Walker Co. parent corporation
of the Loughborough Development Co.
They are the outgrowth of projects
previously started by the late Allan
Z. Walker in visualizing the continual
growth of Washington as COM
mercial center.
Route Is Announced
The route of the proposed new line
will skirt Ballston, Clarendon and
Cherrydale, also opening up to those
places new commercial advantages
At Loughborough, on the Conduit
road, extensive freight yards and
refrigeration plants are to be in
stalled. 1t is said the new line will
cut the haul of freight from the
South something like 10 miles The
run over the new road will be ap-
prOXimately 8 miles, whereas the pres
ent route of freight from the South
is 80 miles.
Those interested in the development
are: Admiral Austin NJ. Knight, Le-
roy Gaddis, jr.; Albert w. Walker,
w. Edgar Leedy, George S. New,
conner, Harry A. Blessing and Douglas
+. Rose.
The War Department has approved
plans for the bridge. 1t is pointed
out that at present freight from the
South consigned to Washington via
the Southern Railway, the Seaboard
Air Line, the Atlantic Coast Line and
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad is
routed through the Cameron yard,
near Alexandria, to the 'much-con-
gested Potomac yards" outside Alex
andria and then across one railroad
bridge and through many congested
terminals and troublesome tunnels
through and around the city via
Hyattsville. The Washington and
Loughborough Belt Line and Ter
minal Co.'S plans will mean an almost
direct communication, avoiding tun-
nels and congested freight yards to
the Loughborough development, where
wholesale marketing houses and re
frigerating plants will be erected.
Point Out Advantages.
Those interested in the development
feel that it will mean much for Wash
ington, and they point out that while
Washington is fourteenth in popula-
ton, it ranks 18th industrially in the
list of American cities.
According to Mr.. Walker, the
Loughborough Belt and Terminal Co.
proposes TO supply the inducements
necessary to invite manufacturers.
jobbing and wholesale activities on a
scale that will aid Washington's mer-
chants to reduce the per capita cost
of living in the District of Columbia.
Activities of a wholesale and job
bing nature and warehousing facilities
which are to be developed at Lough-
borough by the companies can render
store door delivery to retailers, Mr..
Walker said, through a feet of trucks
which will be operated by the Wash
ington Loughborough and Belt Line
Terminal Co.