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UTICA :
At. Utica there has been an addition to the engine house, equivalent to room for
twelve locomotives; the addition is of brick, with slate roof.

SYRACUSE:
The tunnel under the Erie canal, near the eastern limits of the city of Syracuse, has
been enlarged to receive two tracks. It was accomplished by turning an additional
arch along side of the original. This improvement has added much to the safety of
operating the road. We have laid a second track through the city ; firstly excava¬
ting tlie old road bed, wliich was principally clay, and refilling the tracks with good
gravel, also refitting the side w"alks with flagging, &c. The freight accommodations
have been enlarged, by additions to the freight houses, filling up and grading freight
grounds adjoining, and relaying and adding largely to the tracks, to accommodate the
business of the different lines meeting at this place.'

AUBURN:
The engine house and shops were burnt in 1853.    They have since been rebuilt,
and the shops materially enlarged, making this an important point for the repairing
of cars.

EOCHESTER :
Within the city of Eochester we have increased our facilities largely for doing busi¬
ness, by rebuilding the bridges over the Genesee Eiver, Brown's Mill Eace, and under
Saint Paul-street. Previous to rebuilding, we had but one track for most of the
distance across these bridges, and were obliged to transact thereon the business con¬
centrating from five roads. We now have three tracks. The passenger depot has
been completed, and an addition made to the blacksmith shop of one hundred feet in
length, also an addition of one hundred and fifty feet in length to the machine shop,
two stories high, and a boiler shop, all of brick. A new circular engine house, of
biick, with Howe's patent truss roof, .and capable of holding twenty engines, has also
been built. In the fall of 1S.53, a new brick freight house three hundred feet long
was built.

BATAVIA:

A new passenger house was built of brick, at this station, in connection with th«)
Conhocton Valley Railroad.                                                                                          '[

BUFFALO:                                                                                                       j

At  this point we constructed, in 1854, a large and commodious freight house)

fronting on Buffalo harbor.    Attached to the freight house and fronting on the ha,rborJ