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  • September 14, 2016 at 4:33 pm #38940

    Nora Almeida
    Participant

    Some great in­sights in your re­sponses. While most of you note that elec­tri­fi­ca­tion and the tiered track con­struc­tion were the prin­ci­ple en­gi­neer­ing feats achieved by Grand Cen­tral, some of you also pull out other de­tails: Wil­gus’ for­ward think­ing vi­sion, the ex­ca­va­tion (so much dirt!), and the fact that the ter­mi­nal re­mained open dur­ing the con­struc­tion. Over­all, great job dis­till­ing key points.

    November 20, 2016 at 11:51 am #40196

    Deven Guerrero
    Participant

    I’d say the Grand Cen­tral Ter­mi­nal is ” an achieve­ment of civil en­gi­neer­ing” for many rea­son. One, it was one of the first large-scale rail­road elec­tri­fi­ca­tion pro­ject, a de­vel­op­ment that en­abled it to be­come a major rail­road ter­mi­nal. Sec­ond, William Wil­gus idea of en­hanc­ing a form of trans­porta­tion by cre­at­ing an un­der­ground train sys­tem helped the de­vel­op­ment of other rail­roads in New York. As the first major elec­tri­fi­ca­tion of an urban rail­road ter­mi­nal, it made pos­si­ble elim­i­na­tion of the smoke and pol­lu­tion of steam en­gines. This allow the de­sign and con­struc­tion of the pre­sent ter­mi­nal fa­cil­ity which ex­panded rail­road ca­pac­ity and re­leased land for res­i­den­tial and com­mer­cial de­vel­op­ment in the form of apart­ment build­ings, of­fice space and ho­tels. These are rea­sons why the GCT is an achieve­ment of civil en­gi­neer­ing.

    November 22, 2016 at 6:02 pm #40242

    Steven Baculima
    Participant

    The Grand Cen­tral Ter­mi­nal is an achieve­ment of civil en­gi­neer­ing be­cause of its ef­fi­ciency, the en­gi­neers cre­ated a two-level un­der­ground rail yard by di­vid­ing the site into 12 lon­gi­tu­di­nal sec­tions that were built one by one. Due to this, there will be less train-traf­fic in the sta­tions. This sta­tion has served New York City’s rail­roads since 1859. And now it holds 44 plat­forms . Trains with dif­fer­ent des­ti­na­tions set out from here. William Wil­gus cal­cu­la­tion and cre­ativ­ity made it so that the ar­chi­tec­ture would last for many years and be one of most pop­u­lar site in NYC.

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