The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-26

ern Railroad Company in Making
the Roadbed and Equipment wha,
It Is Today-New Bridges, sta.
tions, Tracks, Shops, Round.
Houses, ETC., Built by the Pres.
ent Management.
The immense amount of bridge, road
and station work undertaken and coiii-
pleted by the Lackawanna railroad
since the change in management took
place in the spring of 1899, is fully de-
scribed and Illustrated in the current
issue of the Railroad Gazette. The half
tone illustrations include the bridges
over the Passac river at West Pater-
son. deck spans OH the Buffalo division,
double-track plate girder draw over
the Passaic river at Lyndhurst, n. j.,
the proposed new passenger station ut
Newark, new stations at Dover, WASH
ington and Binghamton.
To handle the bridge and building
and the masonry work to the best ad-
vantage. the system was divided into
three divisions. with a superintendent
of bridges and buildings on each divis-
tematically. and during the past three
years the company has contracted for
31.923 tons of steel work for bridges and
1857 tons of steel work for buildings,
making a total of 33.47O tons. Twenty
two thousand, nine hundred and sixty
eight tons of the steel bridge work
have been erected. of which 1885 tons
have been erected by contract, and S.
1883 tons have been erected by the rail-
road company.
Number Of Bridges.
During this time 342 bridges of varl-
GUS kinds have been ordered, and 263
of them have been completed. OF this
total number, 1S9 are steel railroad
bridges. and 153 are highway bridges
and concrete arches and concrete box
culverts under railroad embankments.
One hundred and forty of the steel rail-
road bridges dncluding eight newe draw
bridges) and 1913 of the other class Gn-
Guiding one new highway draw bridge)
have been completed The total length
of steel railroad bridges which have
been ordered is equivalent to 3.62 miles
of double track, OF which 21s miles have
been completed. In this connection it
may be stated that no derailments or
injuries of any kind to the travelling
public have been caused on account of
the rebuilding work on bridges and
masonry.
The cost Of this bridge work erected,
including masonry substructures pile
foundations, new timber floors and the
removal of old bridges, will exceed So
100000. All of the masonry, except 3,172
cubic yards, has been built of Portland
cement npri,,or l,a
there We're 25,S75 cubic yards of ma
sonry laid, of which 12,416 cubic yards
were done by contract, and 13.459 cubic
yards by the bridge and building de-
partment of the company In 1901 there
were 49.925 cubic yards of masonry laid.
of which 9,S74 cubic yards were done
by contract, and 40049 cubic yards by |
tha bridge and building department.
For the year 1902 no contracts have |
been let for masonry construction, with
the exception of that for the Newark |
track elevation.
Amount of Masonry.
About 10000 cubic yards of masonry
will be completed during the season OF |
1909 by company forces. making an an
proXimate total of 10000 cubic yards |
for the three years. not including the
,,,. IA elaeh ooa s.e'at'on' tl this total
s,,I' "v'toV ."Dio saros - ior nrldge
49,. ,'' am. t'ie pa'aNce Tor en-
80 "'u.e iou'''''.lohs' ~, retaining walls.
,',"s. en- p'ts' etc' me iact that all OF
t,,Is ~ 1000 WIN III 1883 ana nfst
-, ". .,oo ""' .'oi,e u! contract While
,,. VI s.eei "o'N ~ now peinS
.aaa,, Va. VI iuse ana puiioinS FORCES,
,a',.,,, Nv. VII VIZ "'oNe statements re-
tIroa -. .,,. oo'"., uetio'' ior the
- ~, go ..us.'"te ,''e ueFeiopmeht
foroa. na.,,o, no, ~ NV, W. Morh WIN company
~, l"..e' .nan nE contract
~ eonnec'ion win the work of ele-
ark, which is now going ON. anew nos-
senger station. new freight house. ey.
press building aud freight yard are TO |.
he built there. and also Il new station
at Harrison, y. j.
In the Newark and Harrison track
elevation work there will be about
l09'oo0 cubic yards of masonry. and
900 tons of steel work for bridges.
The work on this Improvement was be-
gun early In 1902, and the contenplat-
ed improvement will be completed in
about three years and will cost about
$i,0ooO0O. statistics of the new struc-
lures OF various kinds, which have been
built in the last three years, show
eight new engine houses, with total
OF lS9 stalls ana three more engine
houses are now building.
zen brick and ten frame station build +,