in. above the top of the rail and on a
level with the floors of the cars, so that passengers may enter or leave
trains without using steps, as all cars which will enter the
Pennsylvania Station, New York City, are to be provided with vestibules
having trap-doors in the floor to give access to either high or low
platforms. Details of the platforms are shown on Plates XVIII and XIX.

As planned at present, there will be four main running tracks, one
adjacent to each side of the two platforms, providing standing room for
four of the longest trains, two in each direction, or double the number
of trains of ordinary length, so that passengers having to transfer from
a train destined to the Pennsylvania Station at 33d Street to a train
destined for the Jersey City Station or the Hudson and Manhattan Tunnels
will merely cross the platform. Between the two interior main tracks are
two shifting tracks, so that between the platforms there will be two
passenger tracks on which trains will stop to change motive power and
transfer passengers, and two shifting tracks for rapid despatching of
the empty engines and motors, each of the four tracks being 15 ft. from
center to center to allow for uncoupling and inspection of cars.

An efficient system of connections and cross-overs is provided for all
tracks, and there is ample storage capacity for 10 steam engines at the
western end of the platforms and 20 electric motors at the eastern end,
both of which are conveniently located for quick movement, with
provision for additional storage tracks, if required. Steam engines,
upon being disconnected, can be quickly sent to the main engine storage
yard, and by the use of a loop track no turntable is required. The main
engine storage yard is located south of the running tracks adjoining the
bulkhead along the Passaic River, where provision is made for the
storage of 20 engines. There are two 50,000-gal. water tanks, an
ash-pit, inspection-pit, work-pit, sand-hopper, and the necessary
buildings. Water is brought from the city water main in the Meadows
Yard, on the New York Division, about 8,200 ft. eastward from the center
of this yard.

It was at first planned to locate a power-house and car and engine
repair shops in the yard, but as the ultimate extent of the
electrification of the New York Division cannot now be determined, the
facilities in the large power-house in Long Island City, and in the shop
and round-house in the Meadows Yard of