New-York tribune., 1903-02-28
finanrinl.

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sorbed April lst r6t965s6=6
Cost Of Trenton Cutoff. absorbed April ist.
1902 o1,1tz so
Total charges to Capital Account for the
year s74o3I,a -
Junata and Trenton Cutoff Railroads mainly represent
ties to Cost of Road
In ACCORDANCE with the requirements of the laws Of the
State OF New York, the necessary notice has been
the shareholders of your Company and the Western
that lease Of the latter road fS'y to your COMPANY for
period of twenty years may be duly sufbo1ized.
Delaware Railroad Company originally issued June st
maured June Is 1902 were paid off through the proceeds
OF ike amount OF its IL per cent Consolidated Mort
1908 and guaranteed principal and by the United
NsT jersey Railroad and Canal Company =.
pany under wheh the use Of portion OF your right ct
nated contract entered into between your Com
pany and the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company. on
larger compensation and more advanta geous terms
ASSURED to your system for the privileges granted
country and particularly the sections served by
tation which could not be supplied For although the
traffic carried the roads composing your system East
being an increase Of s6oooooo tons or more than ten
per cent the previous the necessities of the
larger movement The inability to aceommodas these in
There and locomotives enough to have moved
much larger traffic and possibly to have provided the
owing to the overcrowdng of the running tracks and
yards. IT was impossible to use the equipment to its fu
capacity 1t has been the policy of your management for
past to continuously increase these facilities
although heavier expenditures have been made for this
purpose since the beginning Of the present period OF
facilities that it was practicable TO create
The duty which your Company owes to the public,
as Wen as to the shaTehoder teay " reqIe nn IN na' & yGr
mate. demands Of your shipaers To DO This scale
for it IS clear that on some of your the of the
capacity Of the running tracks and yards has been
between Pittsburgh and Phiiadeiphs where the traffic
has become exeeponay ds9ss The ton mileage OF s the
millions of toniles and the density to sYz6s3o ton
traffic alone were srso6 mile, and the total earn
After eafeful consideration. your management has
decided upon the following improvements absolutely
necessary to promptly and economically handle the
next few years of active growth
FirstThe building of new. connection, known as
the Brilliant Branch between the Main Line at East
Liberty and the Allegheny Valley Railway Brilliant and
the construction Of steel viaduct between the tracks Of
These improvements will facilitate the INTERCHANGE OF
traffic between the Pittsburgh Virginia and Charleston
Pennsylvania Railroads, and will complete the final
links in belt line around Pittsburgh The passenger
Railroads will be run into Pittsburgh Station by way Of
the Brilliant line thus leaving the tracks Of both roads
west of their junction with that line exclusively for the
movement OF freight Two large freight yards will be
Allegheny Valley Railway and at sharpsburs the latter
for interchange of traffic between the Western Pennsyl
Chicago Railway and serve the local industries in
Allegheny City, Another yard viii be built on the site
ton and distribution Of Pittsburgh local freight The
of Junction Of the Brilliant line and viii Be elevated
through Alegheny City to connection with the Pitts
double railroad will be built from the Main Lin in
Pittsburgh, along Duquesne Way. TO with a
for that Purpose Of hd s3ee THIS ins
e Pon snd will T permits raf Fl e Of
the tracks grade Liberty Street. Pittsburgh.
on the Pittsburgh Virginia and Charleston Railway and
to the OTmsby yard in South Pittsburgh, and a new
works. These improvements will add greatly to the
facilities in the Pittsburgh district and will hoped
there for the past years:
Second.The double tracking of the Western Penn
sylvania Railroad and the reduction of its grades
bound to Is SIo feet per mile:
Thrd--The building of low grade four-track line
bprsh Division Nllliwood Of Derry. distance
system on that Division
Foqrth--The construction Of doubletrack railway
east end Of the Cialitzn tunnel and Holdaysburg, a
the Petersburg Branch thus furnishing an alternate line
about fifty miles in length between the of the
Allegheny Mountain and Petersburg in the Juniata vaf
ley:
Fjfth-The building OF large classification yard at
Central Railway the opposite side of the Susquehanna
River from Harrisburg. Experience having shown that
mca movement Of trafc these new Yards will be used
f2[ e9a coke I and lmestone and through the relief thus
sufficient for the general merchandise traffic:
of the Northern Central Railway between the new
Fairvew yard and York Haven. of doubIe-track
the latter point via Columbia to Phadephia This lne
cross s e Gl Iusquenanna kxer E Ply 6y stone aTGhed
hia and Port Deposit Railroad from Columbia to Crcss-
the valley Of the Pequea will run thence to Your Main
Line at Parkesburg. which it will follow from Parkes-
While the an Re Pa sad hs to
delphia will be six tracked:
freight railroad thTough The West PhiiadsIphs yards
e s an at the aTd s Ds s
Washington Railroad In this way coal trains will be
ve Sa % between Se P
baltimore and Washington Railroad and the New York
Yard north of Wilmington and IIarsimus yard. on the
Hudson River. without detention at West Philadelphia
per mile the New York Division between Trenton and
Newark will be six tracked and the grades reduced to
the same maximum. and the line through frankford.
ceivns and ciasifeson Yard viii also be built west Of
Frankford Junction Philadelphia admit Of solid
op through the gaTd ana
the maximum grade against the eastbound traffic be
Pittsburgh and Jersey CITY by way OF the Western
Pennsylvania Railroad. VIII De 10 per
mile. with the exception Of the western slope OF the
Allegheny Mountains between Conemaush and Galzin.
distance of u miles where the grade 3 10 feet per
mile and where the Of helping engines will have to
be continued. On the Main Line between Radebaugh
Derry the opposing grade easthcund will also have
been reduced from ssi? 10 Is $40 feet per mile that
it will be necessary that end of the Pittsburgh Dvis
ION assisting power only as far as Radebaugh.
The estimated cost Of the Improvements East of Pitts
hurgh which your Company will have 10 provide the
means and which will require from two to three
complete, is follows
For the Brilliant Branch the Sharpsburg.
brilliant Shire Oaks Ormsby and other
By order o