. Electric railway journal . fices. The traffic arrangements between the Union Stationand the railroads entering it were not such as to encourageshort-haul, low-fare suburban traffic and a real need existedfor a new means of bringing the beautiful and healthfulcountryside of northern Virginia close enough to the ad-ministrative center of Washington to make the formerreadily accessible as a home for the workers in the want is now filled by the Washington & Old DominionRailway, whose city terminus is at least 5 miles nearer thesuburban district than is the Union Station. This enables
. Electric railway journal . fices. The traffic arrangements between the Union Stationand the railroads entering it were not such as to encourageshort-haul, low-fare suburban traffic and a real need existedfor a new means of bringing the beautiful and healthfulcountryside of northern Virginia close enough to the ad-ministrative center of Washington to make the formerreadily accessible as a home for the workers in the want is now filled by the Washington & Old DominionRailway, whose city terminus is at least 5 miles nearer thesuburban district than is the Union Station. This enablesits passengers to step out of its own cars and into thePennsylvania Avenue city cars without loss of time, savingthe additional time and fatigue of walking through themagnificent distances of the Union Station between rail-road and trolley cars. At its Thirty-sixth and M Streets station the railway hascompleted the erection of a steel-frame train shed, 50 ft. x100 ft., remodeled the waiting rooms, ticket offices, baggage. March 22, 1913.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 535 facilities, etc., and established its trainmasters and traindispatchers offices. In like manner the entrance and exit of express, packagefreight and milk traffic will be facilitated as soon as asuitable rearrangement of the Thirty-sixth and M Streetsterminal can be made. This business, like the passenger traffic, will all behandled with electric motive power. For the present,
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