. The New York passenger terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad : (under construction) : brief description of the main features of the engineering work . limitations. Thelayout as finally schemed gives about fifteen miles oftrack. There will be twenty-one station tracks laidgenerally in pairs on 15-feet centers, with distancesbetween each pair of tracks varying from 26 to 31 feetcenter to center, with a single exception at the north-erly side of the station, where, to provide for LongIsland suburban traffic, the distance is made 55 feet. The street brideine surroundino; the terminalcovers an ar
. The New York passenger terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad : (under construction) : brief description of the main features of the engineering work . limitations. Thelayout as finally schemed gives about fifteen miles oftrack. There will be twenty-one station tracks laidgenerally in pairs on 15-feet centers, with distancesbetween each pair of tracks varying from 26 to 31 feetcenter to center, with a single exception at the north-erly side of the station, where, to provide for LongIsland suburban traffic, the distance is made 55 feet. The street brideine surroundino; the terminalcovers an area of about eight acres, and comprisesviaducts for Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Avenues, 7. oo c 0 Oa pq U3 between Thirty-first and Thirtj^-third Streets ; Thirty-first Street and Thirty-third Street between Seventhand Ninth Avenues; all made necessary because theterminal area extends under these avenues and streets. The total weight of metal in these structures is alittle more than 24,000 tons, all of which has been fabri-cated at the shops, and nearly all erected. The station building proper covers an area ofabout eight acres, and is located on the blocks betweenSeventh Avenue and Eighth Avenue, Thirty-first andThirty-third Streets, with the main entrance in thecenter of the Seventh Avenue facade, on which avenuethe building has a frontage of 430 feet. The exterior finish will be of pink Milford granite,and the architectural treatment that of a Doric colon-nade. This immense structure is built upon and around ahuge skeleton framework of steel, supported over thetracks by an extensive system of columns, carrying theweight to rock foundations. The plans for foundationsshow
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