. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . Pericles, is alreadyold and familiar. The Singer Tower andthe Woolworth Building are beingthreatened. Their giraffe-like loftinesslacks the dignity of proportion, and theyall dwindle in the presence of the com-pleted Grand Central Station. Tliis is one thousand trains a day start from theunseen recesses of this caravansary andgo on their winged way with a degreeof regularity and smoothness that rivalsthe stars in their courses. As one gazesat the symmetrical and pilethe thought naturally arises how this en- be the greatest gateway of iralii
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . Pericles, is alreadyold and familiar. The Singer Tower andthe Woolworth Building are beingthreatened. Their giraffe-like loftinesslacks the dignity of proportion, and theyall dwindle in the presence of the com-pleted Grand Central Station. Tliis is one thousand trains a day start from theunseen recesses of this caravansary andgo on their winged way with a degreeof regularity and smoothness that rivalsthe stars in their courses. As one gazesat the symmetrical and pilethe thought naturally arises how this en- be the greatest gateway of iraliic manyyears to come. While the entire work has not beencompletely finished, as it is contemplatedto extend the offices and other buildingsfor which the ground is already secured,the formal opening for general traffic oc- RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. March, 1913- curred last month, and llie public had an people in and out of the terminal totaledopportunity of comprehending the nature There were 4,826 trains handled. MAIN ROOM FOR OUTGOING P.\SSENGERS. and extent of the work the history of railroad building thereis nothing to compare with the work atGrand Central. It is a comparatively easymatter to dig a hole, lay tracks and putup a building, but to rebuild a stationunder traffic, change the entire plant sothat not a vestige of the old remained,keep 800 trains running and handle to passengers a day, was aproposition alive with engineering andoperating problems. To do this, the firstthing required was more room; large pur-chases of land were made abutting Lex-ington, Park and Madison the area from twenty-threeacres in the old terminal to seventy-nini- acres in the new. includingboth levels of tracks. As each new trackor group of tracks was finished a corre-.^ponding number of old ones was aban-doned, and traffic went on without inter-ruption. How well this problem of build-ing a terminal and operat
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