Evening star., 1925-07-19
INDUSTRIAL CITY
IN SUBURBS SEEN
BaCkerS CT New Rail Line
Believe Many Small Fac
tories May Come.

Eleven miles of railroad and a new
railroad bridge across the Potomac will
change the entire status of the Ma
tional Capital from a community de-
pending largely upon Government ac-
tivitieS to a national transportation
center and a selfsustaining com
mercial city, if the hope of those in
terested in the new branch line and
bridge TO be built from Cameron
yards in Alexandria, Va, to the Dale
Carlia reservoir section of Washington
by the new Washington and Lough-
borough Belt Line and Terminal Co.
come to pass.
While it is not the intention of
those back of this ambitious project to
advocate Washington as q smoke-be-
grimed factory and manufacturing
center. they feel that the vision Of the
late Allan Z. Walker of the National
Capital as a selfSustaining community
with many light manufacturing houses
and gateway of railroad transporta-
tion TO the South can be effected in
manner that will in no way mar the
development Of the city into the most
beautiful capital in the world.
Lone Bridge at Present.
While many persons in the city
have long held this view, little has
been done toward the realization of
this aim until the announcement yes
terday by Albert w. Walker, who has
taken up his fathers project, that the
company with which he is associated
will eliminate a circuitious 40-mile
freight route around Washington,
through tunnels and congested freight
yards, by an 11-mile railroad from
Cameron yards, skirting Clarendon,
Ballston, Cherrydale and crossing the
Potomac just above the Dalecarlia
Il1l 81
Baltimore and Ohio tracks and posi-
bly, joining them. At Loughborough, a
tract just outside the District Line at
Massachusetts avenue extended, will
be erected warehouses, freight depots,
switching yards, refrigeration plants
and every inducement will be made to
obtain light manufacturing plants and
other industrial projects to locate
there.
Only one railroad bridge crosses the
Potomac from the Atlantic coast to
Harper'S Ferry. That the destruction
OF this bridge at Washington, and over
which all freight between the North
and South goes, would be a disaster is
well known. This was realized when
during the war strict guard was
kept by the Government over this
connecting link over which continually
pour al the freight passing through
Washington north or south bound.
Traffic Circles City
At the present time freight from the
South consigned via the Southern
Railway, the Seaboard Air Line, the
Atlantic Coast Line and the Chesa-
peake and Ohio is routed through the
Cameron yards TO the Potomac yards
outside Alexandria, then across the
one railroad bridge. through terminals
and tunnels and around the city via
Hyattsville for approximately 40 miles
to the Washington Terminal. This
circutious route will be eliminated.
according to Mr.. Walker, by the new
and direct line.
The plan for the terminal at Lough-
borough on the outskirts of the city is
similar in location and outlay as sue
cessful terminals in Dallas, ST. Louis
and other cities.
Some time before his death the late
Allan f. Walker employed Maj. c. E.
Smith, city engineer of St. Louis. to