National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-07-10
Immense Works Of tho Psn..y,yan,n Rail.
read In New Jerrev

1nmenso Works Of tho PsnnsyIvanin Rail.
read In New Jersey.
The Ponnsylvania Railroad Company Ia
erecting number Of mammoth shops TO-
tween the Hackcnsack and Passaic rivera,
New Jersey. Work was begun with . force
Of Tour hundred men last fall, and continued
during the winter, the Ice forming an auril-
iary In hardening the ground and allowing
heavy articles to be transported across il
without sinking. The shops and round house
are all under way ut present, and some Of the
walls, all OF which are Of brick, arc so far
advanced that the shape Of the buildings can
be seen. There are twenty buildings In all,
and tho area covered by them will exceed 100
acres. The furthest east Of these In the an
glels thcshop for ereetlng freight cars, which,
40 feet In diameter. Ono half of this circle
Will be finished during the coming summer.
The next building Is the paint and yarnish
shop, 100 by 90 feet A long building running
north and south comes next; II il
$50 by ITO feet, and designed for painting
and upholstering as well as erecting paAsen-
yer cars. West OF this shop Is large trans
fer table, $50 BY 60 feet; on the northern side
Of tho angle Is an immense T-shaped build
Ing, combining locomotive works, boiler and
tank works, and q shect-lron rolling-mlll. II
VIII be 200 by 10 feet. Next comes black
smith shop, 100 by 100 feet; a planing-mill,
l30 by 70 feet; q boilcr-shopa and engineeroom,
20 by 80 feet, with a circular smokc-stack, I25
feet high and 4 feet diameter at the base. Be-
You'd this Is q drying-housc, 20 by so feet,
and a lumber shed, 100 by 20. Tho most west,
cru building Of the settlement Is the round
house, 800 feet In diameter, and capable OF
accommodating "A locomotives. At one side
Of this house Is the oil and cotton waste
store, building 90 by 75 feet. Tho general
appearance OF tho works Is like city, with
Immense rotundas with domes aud cupolas At
either end, and large shop with O towering
chimney In the centre. The boiler and tank,
house and the round-house are ready for the
roof, and will be finished In two weeks,
aud tho whole place will require q
force Of nearly four thousand Operatives,
nearly all OF whom will come from other
towns on the lue Of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, and, with their families, will increase
the population Of HudsoiH county nearly
l2,O00. Beyond the shopI In the narrow
portion OF the area, an immense coal-yard,
knowL as the "Coal Wharf," though not on
the wator. One side Of Il will front on the
Morris and Essex aAd Delaware, Lackawan-
ma and Western railroads, the other on tho
Pennsylvania railroad, and . storage-room
will be obtained for million tons, n neces-
ssary. On the southern side Of tho track the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company has also
purchased strip $50 feet wide and nearly o
milo In length, which will be used for coal
shutes for supplying engines and for part Of
of the car yard. The car yard 10 be used for
making up and storing trains will contain
about 80 miles Of track, and room for be-
tween 1000 and 5000 cars, the tracks being
laid as close as possible, TO admit Of compact
storage, and switches at intervals Of 900
feet connect all the tracks for drilling pur-
poses. The company Intend 10 move large
number Of their Isolated shops to the meadow
shop. and these will be tho largest works Of
the kind In the country.