On Dec. 22, 1902 William J. Wilgus wrote a three page letter to the railroad’s president, W. H. Newman. The letter addressed to destroy the existing Grand Central and switch the egregious steam locomotives to electric trains. Wilgus’s proposed that Electric motors made fewer noxious fumes and no obfuscating smoke or steam. Wilgus also described, electricity “dispenses with the need of old-style train sheds,” because it made underground tracks possible and that they could make it two stories. The top for long distance travel and the bottom for short commutes. Wilgus’s wrote “could be transformed from a nonproductive agency of transportation to a self-contained producer of revenue a gold mine, so to speak.” He projected the cost would be $35