Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-12-18
NAME CENTRAL.


railroad for 1882 will be issued next week.
The total bonded debt 10 So, 7O2. 59I. a6. In
1881 it was 81, 1903. 223. 2s. The total bonded
debt, with the bonded debt assumed by lease
OF the European & North American railway
Is 8, I2l, 59l.26. on which interest to the
amount Of s629. 90l 25 is annually paid. The
cash on hand held by the treasurer is slO.-
070l5
The total train mileage for the year wa.
i.446, 23s. Total number of passengers car
RED, 534, 80; receipts for same, 1885,. $3.50 I6
Total number of tons freigh. carried. $50. 1866 ;:
receipts for same, 81 .O67 1856,
-Four thousand five hundred tons steel rail.
have been laid, equal to so miles of track !;
IRON rails repaired and relaid in 43 miles of
track; l25,500 new sleepers were laid in
track; $4,000 cubic yards of gravel were
placed under 124 miles of track: 5I-lOO
miles OF new side tracks were built; $40
miles Of rail fence; 3 : 10 miles of board
fence; 10 s 10 miles of barb steel wire fence.
and one mile of fence for protection Of track
from snow were built: 10 miles of old
fence were thoroughly repaired and rebuilt.
The total length of new bridges built in 1882
Is 422 feet. There have been ,26I cubic
yards of stone masonry built.
At Augusta, the westerly river span and the
s'iOIc span VI Tile iron DrlfIye across
the kennebec have been removed, and in
their places five spans of iron plate girders
have been erected. Five new piers of first
class masonry have been built to receive
these eirders, requiring some over 600 yards
of stone work.
The iron bridge across the Androscoggin
on the main line between Brunswick and
Topsham, has received an entirely new floor
system, and has also been further strength
ened by a new system of lateral bracing.
The wooden Howe truss bridge across the
street at Topsham station, and the wooden
Queen Post bridge across Pearl street,
Brunswick, have each been replaced by iron
plate girder bridges.
Extensive and substantial repairs have also
been made on many other bridges.
There are 70 bridges on the road; of these
all but six have been rebuilt since 1870.
There are 5,4l7 feet in Is iron bridges. and
10 623 feet in 6l wooden bridges. There
are under the track on the main land AMI
branches, ], 406 culverts and 229 cattle pass
es.
New buildings have been erected at eight
stations. Extensive repairs have also been
made on some of our passenger stations.
Congress street. Portland, has been made
a signal station for some Of our trains, and a
platform GOO feet long has been built at that
point for the accommodation of passengers.
The rolling stock of the road consists of :
SO locomotive engines. 30 of which are
equipped with train brakes; &C passenger
ears, 60 of which are equipped with Miller
platforms and buffers, and arr brakes 90
baggage and mail cars. q of which
equipped with Miller platform and air brakes :;
8 postal cars Col freight ears, including
box, hay and cattle cars 4S9 platform freight
ears; sc conductors saloon. workmen's and
tool cars; II snow plows; 10 fiange scrapers.
During the past year there has been added
to the equipment of the road;
One locomotive, five fiat dump cars from
Portland Compayss Works; six passenger
cars, from Watson Car Works, Spring field :;
one saloon car, company's shop.
January Goth, X. L. Williams, station
agent at Leeds Junction, while Stacking
cars, slipped and fell under the car. He died
from his injuries January oath.
February 24th, E +. Chase, while crossing
the track at lceborO. was thrown from his
sleigh, struck the train, and was killed
In each of the above cases a coroners jury
exonerated the company from blame.
The employees of the company have been
faithful to their duties.
There were during the year 67,146 passen-
gers carried from Portland, 46. 1863 from
Brunswick, 81 l42 from Bath, IL, 300 from
Richmond. l., 005 from South Gardiner, &C.,
347 from Gardiner, 35,0S5 from Hallowell,
59,3l5 from Augusta, 1904 from Fairfield,
S2S from Auburn, 33. 7S9 from Lewiston
upper station, 81 $40 from Watervlle, 81 ,054
from Bangor, To- III from Lisbon Falls, 49,
Sos from Lewiston lower station.
The European & North American Railway
has been leased to this company, perpetually.
at an annual rental of Sl25000. from April
1882 and we have also assumed the out
standing liabilities ef that road, including
81 ZOO. 900 of bonds of the city of Bangor,
due January |, 1891, and bearing interest at
six per cent. and $4,000 of +. & n. A. X.
K. bonds, due August l, 1888. at the same
rate of interest.
Including the European North American
there is total of 40 miles operated by the
Maine Central. OF the ia miles Of the +.
6 n. A. 81 are laid with steel, and the track
and rolling stock generally are in good condi-
ton.
Major Dunn and wife, also the youngest
daughter of Hon Lot NJ Morrill, who sailed