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The New-Yokk Ckntkal Kailroad CoaMi-any

CHIEF ENGIXECK'^ OFFICE.

Aluany, December 4th, 1855.
To John Y. L. Pkuyn,  Acting President,
Sir:
In compliance with your request, I submit a brief statement of the principal build¬
ings erected, and the general improvements on the lino of the road, since the consolida¬
tion in 1853.

AT ALBANY:

A brick freight house ISO feet long, two stories high. Tlie sei^ond story is fitted up
with offices for the freight department at the station.

One brick circular engine house, with iron truss roof, capable of holding eighteen
locomotives. We have also built a blacksmith, macliine and boiler shops, which
adjoin the engine house.

AVEST ALBANY :
Here we have added largely to oar side tracks and branches for the accommodation
of passenger, emigrant, freight and cattle cars. Extensive cattle pens have been
built, making this point a very desirable one for drovers to tranship live stock, with¬
out injury or delay. The Company have, this year, in the course of construction (and
now nearly completed) three car houses for the protection of passenger cars. They
are principally constructed from materials taken from the old buildings which stood
on the site of the contemplated passenger depot in the city of Albany. They are of
brick, with slate roofs, each building 335 feet long. We have also built a brick
dwelling-house from the same materials for the use of our station agent.

SCHENECTADY:

A large and convenient freight house has been built at this point of brick, with
slate roof, and a large amount of grading has been done, and the necessary tracks to
accommodate the concentration of business from the difterent roads.

TROY:
The bridge over a branch of the Hudson River, consisting of two spans of about 110
feet each, has been rebuilt in the most substantial manner; also about 300 feet of
trestle work adjoining. Two other points on the Troy division, where trestle work
formerly stood, have been filled up with earth; securing the road from accident and
future expenditure.