The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-17

line of the road, during the past calendar
year is hereby respectfully submitted TO the
Stockholders of the Portland ~ Ogdensburg
Railway:
The total recepts from traffic were. 1888, ,566.29
The operating expenditure .weres.... 272,46l.99
ssi, ,1o4.so
Paid coupons Of first
mortgage and re-
ceiyer's eertii-
Paid In reduction OF
mortgages, inter-
est on mortgage
loans and sundry
accounts. oyo5o.oo
Paid material coal
Oh manu- s79,69i 5s
Surplus to credit profit and loss.... sI,4l2.72
The passage Of the interstate commerce
bin broke up the through traffic of the road,
and until the re-arrangement of the tariffs
could be made and divisions agreed upon be-
tween the companies making up the through
lines-a period Of about four m0nths-the
through business, both east and west bound,
was almost entirely suspended. Hence
very considerable falling off in the earnings
from what would have been the gross re-
ceipts of the year had no such interruption
taken place.
compared with the preceding year is largely
due to the extraordinary expenditure atBart-
lett in new engine house and other improve
ments to the rebuilding of two long pile
bridges at Westbrook and Gambo; and to the
balances due on the locomotives held under
Never has the road, so far as relates to its
grades. road-bed, tracks and bridges, been in
so good condition for the safe and economi-
cal movement Of its trains, as at the present
time.
the past year, 80 tons of new steel rails. A
new siding, 1000 feet in length, has been
built and the track laid, extending from the
main line to the quarry of the Maine d New
Hampshire Granite Company in Conway.
New tracks, aggregating 3,257 feet in all,
have been laid in the yard at Bartlett. A
siding. $40 feet long has been put in at
Hart's Mills, near Bemis Brook. AT other
points, where needed, tracks have been laid
TO the extent of 5S5 feet About 600O feet Of
track has been taken up from sidings now
disused Sidings in use now aggregate 49,,
21S lin. feet in length, about 211 miles.
25,S30 ties have been put in. We have
about 1000 hemlock ties now on hand. We
are manufacturing at the shops Cooks safe
ty switches, to be put in wherever required
upon the line; thirty-one automatic switches
having already been placed where most
needed. Every main line switch Is now pro-
vided with lamp.
Each section has been provided with We
locipede car This has proved very con-
venient, as well as the most economical plan
for patrolling the line, lighting switch lamps,
etc.
On the 1st of June last, the steam shovel
was put into the Summit Cut, above White
Rock station, for the purpose OF reducing
the grade by lowering the summit, and also
to procure material for filling the trestle on
the siding, which extends from the main line
to the Sebago Wood Board Company's mill
at South Windham. About p 900 yards were
taken out of said cut, lowering the track at
summit six feet. About 10000 yards of this
were put into the trestle, making solid en-
bankment in the place OF decaying struc-
ture, which had become a source of continu-
al expense; about 6000 yards we're used in
raising the embankment at Gambo bridge,
and the balance put on the low embankments
above White Rock station, raising them, as
required, from two to four feet. In Septem-
bel the shovel was moved to the gravel pit
at Sebago Lake, and $1,000 yards Of gravel
were taken out and distributed between that
point and the Westbrook line, in raising to
grade the embankments which had settled
from one to three feet below the true grade.
There have been 740 cubic yards of solid
masonry built as follows $40 yards at Ked-
ron brook, making solid arch culvert to
take the place of the old wooden structure
now spanning that ravine; 60 yards at
Moores brook in abutments for iron grders,
which also will there replace the present
wooden truss bridge these glrders were
made at the company's shopsl; 80 yards In
abutment at lower end of Frankensteln
trestle to hold span OF new iron girders; III
yards for foundation for new iron turn-table
and engine house at Bartlett; 80 yards Tor
abutment at Little Saco, where we have sub
stituted a set of iron plate girders for the
wooden truss over that stream; SO yards to
lengthen the culyert on White Rock grade,
and 10 yards. on culvert at Bemls station.
We have now left on hand $50 yards Of quar-
ried stone. 125 yards OF rip-rap have been
put on embankments at Gambo bridge, and
So yards on Sticky river outlet
The two old pile bridges which had been
unfavorably commented upon by the 4. r.
Commissioners OF Maine, have been entirely
rebuilt. The surface of the track over the
one at Westbrook has been raised ten inches !;
the old bridge cut out and carried away. The
one at Gambo has been shortened up to "a
feet. or 30 feet between the cribs with solid
embankment to the river banks, and raised
feet 8 inches higher than the old bridge,
thereby improving the grade on both sides
of the river. Besides the set of plate girders
put over the Little Saco before mentioned,
new iron girders have been substituted for
the wooden stringers at Mallison's Falls,
Sticky River and Quaker Brook and two
spans are now ready to be put on at Franken-
stein and Moore's Brook A considerable
amount of grading has been done at kedron
and Moore's Brooks by cutting back on the
mountain side for the new alignment Of the
track made necessary by the projected
Strengthening of the line Of the road at these
points. A very considerable expenditure
has been made the past year IN the erection
OIL new anu CuidA 6OAAotAs anu
repairs Of the old buildings.
At Bartlett new engine house containing
six stalls and thoroughly equipped with all
the modern improvements for watering and
steam heating. has been built; also con-
nected Herewith, a large tank house with
| two large tanks, TO which bountiful supply
of water is brought from the Bartlett water
works. A six inch pipe has been laid from
| the tank house to the main line at point
| opposite the coal pen, with an upright pipe,
| so that water and coal can now be taken by
| the locomotives at the same time The old
| engine house has been moved across the
| track and fitted up for car repair shop and
| as headquarters for the bridge men. The
| old wood shed has been torn down and re-
| built near the new engine house. THESE I'M
| provements have been long needed at this
| without serious inconvenience and danger
| Of injury to the locomotives, several of which
| are always kept at this station.
The houses for the accommodation Of the
| section men in the Mountain Division at
| Livermore, Frankenstein, Avalanche and
| Mt. Wiley have been put In good repair and
| painted. The new cottage house at Mt.
| Willard, near the Notch, the erection OF
| which was commenced in the preceding
| year, has been finished. This is by far the
| largest and most expensive structure OF It's
| kind on the Mountain Division, and It's
| erection was determined upon from con-
sideration of the necessity Of having some
| place for temporary shelter, during the heavy
| winter storms, to the men engaged IN clear
| ing the track Located, by necessity, in the
most picturesque section OF the mountain
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