Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1906 — BIG RAILROAD OUTLAYS, [ARTICLE]

BIG RAILROAD OUTLAYS,

Three Line* Are Siiendlng $120,000000 in New York. More than $120,000,000 is being expended in the borough of Manhattan for the New I’ork Central, the New York, New Haven and Hartford, and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. It is estimated that the final station plans of the Pennsylvania will require an outlay off $50,000.000. Up to date the plana of the New York Central for a terminal for itself and the New Haven road will cost $50,000,000, and along with the New York Central’s “electrification” of itH rails. $70,000,000. Four hundred buildings had to be demolished for the Pennsylvania’s site. For the station and yards of the New York Central six additional blocks will be tak- ’ ehlleTween 42d and's7th streets." Contrary to the general impression, that which the New York Central is carrying on, so far as the excavating is concerned, is of greater difficulty and dimensions that what the Pennsylvania is doing near Herald square. There is to he a double deck system of tracks—one below for the suburban and one above for the through express service. In the deepest part this plan has required the excavation of rock © a depth of 70 feet. Before the whole excavation is done 2,500.000 cubic yard* >f rock and . earth will have to be re moved. This >is the fourth time in 46 years ‘hat the Grand Centra) station has had to be enlarged and reconstructed.