Annual report of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company and its leased lines being for the year ending September 30th ...

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Abutments of three bridges and three cattle passes between Newark

and Palmyra.
Arch culverts at Milton avenue, Syracuse (in progress); at Victor, at

Yates and elevator on Charlotte Branch;   at Cartersville and  at

Cornelius creek.
Abutments of Conjaguadies Creek bridge.
Eetaining wall at Fort Porter, Buffalo.
Abutments of following bridges:    Brace street. Black Bock;  Cayuga

creek at LaSalle;   Gulf bridge, Lockport Junction;   Eace bridge,

Lockport Line;   Highway bridge, Lockport Line, and Toll-gate

bridge, Lockport Line.
Abutments of Marsh Creek bridge, Geneva, rebuilt.

New Bridge Structures.
Substructure of masonry and piling, and wrought-iron superstructure
for pivot draw-bridges over Tonawanda creek, and also over the
Niagara river to Tonawanda island, with branch railroad tracks
in connection with same, for lumber business, at Tonawanda,
N. Y.

Iron" Bridge Structures.

Ee-inforcing and repairing bridges at Harbor brook, Onondaga creek;
Limestone creek (old); Limestone creek (new); Marsh creek;
Geneva (new); Cayuga creek (new double track 100 foot span);
Oswego Junction bridge; Gill creek bridge; Slip No. 2, Buffalo,
new (in progress); Patroon creek, Albany; four bridges at Eoches¬
ter re-inforoed; highway bridges at Holly and Brockport (in
progress).

Eight hundred tons of manufactured iron work, for strengthening
twenty-four bridges on main line, between Tarrytown and
Eochester (in progress).

Duplicating and repairing rotating machinery of Harlem river draw¬
bridge.

Grading and Filling.

Grading new slopes, and sub-drainage of same, to Soutli street prop¬
erty, Peekskill.

Filling in water front, 30th street freight yard, beliind new bulk¬
head built by the city (in progress).

Tracks and Sidings.
Nineteen miles of  double track, main line,  between Irvington and
Peekskill, laid with rail weighing 80 pounds to the yard, replac¬
ing rail weighing 65 pounds to the yard.
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