Annual report of Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company

(New York, N.Y. :  Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company  )

Tools


 

Jump to page:

Table of Contents

  1950: Page [13]  



stalled during 1950 to provide com¬
pressed air for operation of switches,
pumps and other equipment. They re¬
place old compressors which had been in
constant operation for many years but
which are now used only in emergency.

The Hudson Tubes station at Journal
Square in Jersey City is leased from the
Pennsylvania Railroad. Your Company
is currently cooperating with the Penn¬
sylvania in extensive rebuilding of this
station, featuring the installation of a
pair of moving stairs to replace the two
old passenger elevators now in use.

A new 250-ton railbender, put into
operation in 1950, has resulted in econo¬
mies not only in labor but in replacement
of rails on curves. The new machine
makes it possible for our own mainte¬
nance forces to bend heat-treated rails,
which last almost twice as long on curves
as ordinary rails, and which require less
maintenance after they are laid.
 

a pile driver pre-

ro't the. foundation for

lh(   nfu  car shop build-

the   Henderson

■et  Yard.  At left is

architects   concep-

JTon   of   the   interior.

The gallery at the right

this   sketch  will   he

ippid lor light shop

A.
 

Q Hm.,,. ^"?.™lfc dcL
  1950: Page [13]