Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-28
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Total charges to Capital Account
for the year 1902. IA. 9Sl 800 -
The charges to Capital on account Of the Schuyl-
kill and Juniata and Trenton Cut-on RAILROADS
mainly transfer On your m
In accordance with the requirements OF the laws
Of the State Of New York. the necessary notice
has been given to the shareholders rs, Of your Com
Railway Company in order that the lease of the
latter road to your Company for period u TWEEN
BelVidess Delaware Railroad company originally
were paid OF through the proceeds Of like
Bonds, running ior forty years from January ist
1903, and guaranteed principal and interest hy
the United New Jersey, Railroad and Canal Com
Tie contract with the Western Union Telegraph
right Of way was granted to it for its telegraph
lines having terminated, contract was entered
graph and Cable Company, on July 1st, 1902, for
the term Of fifteen years, under which lager
compensation and more advantageous terms are
assured to your system for the privileges granted
The remarkable development Of business through
out the country and IN ,h rne ions
a demand for transportation which could not be
supplied. For although the traffic carried over the
roads composing your system East and West OF
Pittsburgh aggregated nearly 27O,000,0OO tons, be-
ing an Increase of 28,0O0,0OO tons. or more than
ten per cent the previous year, the necessities
Of the Industries dependent upon your lines de-
manded q much larger movement. The 1naD1nty 10
lack Of track and yard faciiites There were cars
and locomotives enough to have moved much
larger traffic and possibly. to have PROVIDED ane
free. but owing to the ofercrowding Of the run,
ming tracks and yards. ~ was Impossible to use
the equipment to its full capacity. 1t has been
the policy of your management for years past to
continuously increase these facilities so as to keep
them up to the demands of the traffic; but al
though heavier expenditures have been made for
this purpose since the beginning OF the present
period OF SIM tSet Of the
has outstripped the facilities that 1t was pracu-
cable to create y 800, - .ho ,,,,-
lie, as we'll as to the shareholders, clearly re-
quires that your lines shopld be, put in condi-
Shippers shin s% Il DO this a scale justified by past
experience. will involve barge outlay for It + is
clear that on q nd the % has 81
reached. This is particularly true OF your Main
Line between Ptsburgh md The
ton mileage Of the Main Line excluding branches,
amounted to over 500 millions OF a an of
road. The earnings from freight traffic alone
were 18,47s.96 per mile, and the total earnings
After careful consideration your management has
decided upon the following improvements as ap-
handle the present volume of traffic, and meet the
demands of the next few years of active CROWN
These
as the Brilliant Branch, between the Main Line at
East Liberty and the Allegheny Valley Railway at
at Aspinwail and the construction Of steel viaduet
between the tracks of the Port Perry Branen anu
will facilitate the Interchange of traffic between
the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston Kallway,
P fss sl Railroads. and will complete the
final iS links in belt line around PITTSBURGH The
Rsods 9
Pttsburg Station by way 81 .ne rast at the,
junction with that line exclusively for the move
ment Of freight Two large freight yards will be
built at the junction and Of ts
the latter for interchange Of traffic between the
Western Pennsylvania Railroad and the Pitts.
serve the local industries in Allegheny City An,
other yard will be built on the site OF the 1la
and distribution Of Pittsburg local freight. The
western Pennsylvania Railroad will be four-tracked
With the PttsSu4s Fort chicago Ran
from An .s Nam e n along
pua au Way, to connect with freight station
be Tsed mes Of s ne
also afford connection with the present Duquesne
station at the Point a n will peaas on on Liberty
streat Pittsbureh. Large extensions will be made
to the yard at Shire Oaks on the pittsburgh VIZ
ward in South Pittsburgh, and new yard Will De
built at Thomson to serve the adjacent steel works
ties in the Pittsburgh district, and WILL it Is hoped
relieve the chronic state Of congestion which has
existed there for the past two years
Second-The double tracking of the Western Penn
sviyania Railroad and the reduction Of its grades
en- stbound to 10 $40 feet per mile.
Third-The building Of a new low-grade four
track line from Radebaugh tunnel, near Green's
burg, on the Pittsburgh Division, to wildwood, east
Of Derry, a distance Of nineteen miles, and the
sion.
Fourth-The construction Of double,track rail
wav via the roadbed of the New Portage Road,
between the east end of the Galltzin tunnel and
Hollidaysburg, distance Ct seventeen miles, ana
furnishing an alternate line about fifty miles in
length between the summit Of the Allegheny Noun
tain and Petersburg in the Juniata valley.
Fifth.-The building of large classification yard
at Holiday sburg, and another at Fairview on the
s1sI hssss ssp Of
rience having shown that yards may become too
large for the promptIand economical movement OF
coke. and limestone and through the relief thus
afforded. the Altoona and Harrisburg yards win be
amply sufficient forf thee general merchandise
traffic: = 50 aIs oIl 1ssftf.Cf
Sixth-The building in connection with the four
tracking Of the Northern Central Hallway between
double track low grade railroad about ninety-hve
miles in length tromthe latter point via colGm-
lA.
Shocks viii utilize five miles of your Columbia
and Port Deposit Railroad from Columbia to
hanna to enter the valley I8f the Pequa. will run
it viii follow from farkesadrg to Thorndale. and
parallel it from TbSrndaA. to Paon. while the
Main Line betweenf Pacific Philadelphia will
be six-tracked. II - q
Seyenth-The construction of a double track
elevated freight railrnad through the West Phila-
delphia yards between the Main Line at Thirty
sixth Street and the sDelaVhre Extension and the
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Rail-
road In this way coal trains will be through
between Fairyiew and Greenwich. on the Della
ware River and traffic between the Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington Railroad and the New
York Division may be handled directly between
fhe Sheilpot yard, north of Wilmington and Har-
sinus yard on the Hudson River, without deten-
tion at West Philadelphia.
The grades on the Trenton Cut-of between
Glen Loeb and Morrisville will be reduced from
20 to Is $40 feet 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, Bristol, and
Railway Strengthened and elevated A receiving
and classification yard will also be built west Of
Trankford Junction, Philadelphia, to admit of
solid trains for that section being made up at
Harrisburg and run without stop through the
West Philadelphia yard.
when these Improvements shall have been COM
pleted, the maximum grade against the eastbound
traffic. between Pittsburg and Jersey City by way
~ the Western Penneyivdnia Railroad. W he