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

(Albany :  Weed, Parsons & Co.,  )

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  1887: Page 10  



Five miles of new second track between Tonawanda and LaSalle.
New tracks at Lyons yard to facilitate the handling of coal.
Twenty-one and one-half miles of sidings laid on property belonging

to the company, and four-fifths miles of sidings laid on property

belonging to outside parties.

Equipment.

Locomotives and fixtures:

Thirty-three new locomotives; 30 to replace same number de¬
stroyed or sold; and 3 added to equipment. Also 11 locomotives
equipped with anti-flre heater.

Passenger and baggage cars:

Forty-six new oars; 7 to replace same number of old cars
destroyed; and 39 added to equipment. Also 35 cars equipped
with anti-fire heater.

Freight and other cars:

One thousand six hundred and forty-three new 34 feet 25 ton
cars; 657 to replace same number of old cars varying in capacity
from 6 to 15 tons; and 986 added to equipment.
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