Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1914 — RECORD BELONGS TO BOSTON [ARTICLE]

RECORD BELONGS TO BOSTON

Busiest Railroad Terminal in the t Country Is the South Station, Located There.

The busiest railroad terminal in this country is the South station of Boston, Mass., which handles more trains, passengers, baggage and mail a day than any other station. The largest railroad station in this country in point of size is the recently complete Grand Central terminal in New York city. These two stations are at the terminal of the New Yorjt Npw Haven & Hartford railroad, which railroad shares the former station with the Boston & Albany .railroad, and the latter with the New York Central railroad. The total number of passengers in and out of the South station from July 1912, to June, 1913, exceeded twen-ty-eight. million; the number in and out of the Grand Central exceeded twenty-two million. Almost twice as many trains are handled each day at the South station as at the Grand Central, blit the number of cars a train is greater at the latter. In spite of this tremendous traffic, the passenger facilities of the Grand Central are far from taxed; although at the present time about 62,000 persons use it daily, when completed the station will have capacity to handle seventy thousand an hour. Twenty-one tracks have still to be completed at this station, whereas at the South station in Boston all the tracks are now in use, with the exception of the two suburban loop tracks, whose operation must await electrification. Engineering News. ■. ' ”