The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-21

these interchange shipments from the DelaWare river region rather than the Lenlgh md New England, which is aisa undr the control of the Lehigh I coal and Navigation company, In or der to inrease the amount of through
 traffic fran the west received over the
 ontario and Western, the Ontario Gen.
 tral 0is)atch line which runs over the New York, New Haven and Hart
 ford, Ney York, Ontario and Western,
 Michigan Central and Big Four rail roads, vas in February organized. since tie establishment of this fast freight line there has been a consider able iac'ease in shipments by this route. anl consequently in the use of the New Havens Highland division. An idea, though not an accurate esti- 1 mate, of he amount of traffic handled, can De ganed from the number of reg
 ular freight trains which are run over
 the Highland division east from the l Hudson rver. From Fishkill Landing
 there are three daily regular first-class freight t'ains which run to Hopewell and theme east via Danbury. One of these is Boston and another a Prov ldence fnight. In connection with
 these trains, the New York Central ana Hud0n River runs a daily train from East Buffalo to Fishkill Landing carrying beef, perishable freight and hlgh-class merchandise for points on the New York, New Haven and Hart lord, connecting with the Boston train, and two solid trains from West Albany to New York New Haven and Hartford points via Fishkill Landing for connection with the Providence lfalh In addition to the three first class freight trains east from Fishkill Landing there are four regular second class freight trains, two of them Bos- ton freighs from Fishkill Landing and three regular second-class freight trans, one of them Boston freight, rom Campbell Hall and Poughkeepsie
 mus the present regular traf1c east pound over the Highland division Is made up of eleven regular freight trans, in addition to as many extras as may be run That a large increase of traffic via Campbell Hall and Poughkeepsie is expected Is shown also by the fact that a contract has been made with the American Bridge com pany for reconstruction, at a cost of aoout one million dollars, of the Poughkeepsie bridge over the Hudson river.
 Now that the double-tracking of the section from Hopewell to Danbury is nearly finished, rebuilding work has peen pushed further to the eastward. Reconstruction of the section from Waterbury east to Bristol fifteen miles, was begun this spring. Much of this is very heavy work, involving con- siderable change of line, which will re- suit in saving two miles of distance. About four miles from Terryville east to Bristol, and two miles from Han cock east to Tolles, is to be entirely new line There is to be built thirty hVe hundred foot tunnel on the new location, and twelve hundred degrees of curvature will be taken out. The fourteen miles of new work will in- volye approximately five hundred and eighty thousand yards of earth and two hundred and sixty thousand yards of rock excavation. In comparison with the thirty miles of work between Hopewell and Danbury, which cost twelve hundred thousand dollars, this fourteen miles will cost seventeen hun dred thousand dollars Railroad Ga- zette,