20
 

with the understanding that the City will, at its expense, make the necessary changes in
street approaches and provide the station plaza.

Agreements were consummated with The Pennsylvania Railroad Company to dispose
of claims of The Pennsylvania Railroad Company arising from the discontinuance in 1930
of this Company's use of the Union Depot property on the lake front at Cleveland, Ohio.
At the same time, both companies are enabled to make needed improvements in track lay¬
outs and signalling in the territory adjacent to the Union Depot property, including the
reconstruction, in conjunction with the United States Government, of a swing bridge which
carries a track of this Company and The Pennsylvania Railroad Company over the
Cuyahoga River west of the Union Depot property.

Application was filed and is pending with the Interstate Commerce Commission for the
establishment of auxiliary truck routes throughout Big Four territory for the purpose of
substituting motor vehicle service for railroad local freight operations in the handhng of
less-than-carload freight, and thereby coordinating rail and highway operations, accom¬
plishing improvement and economies in service, and more effectively meeting highway
competition.

During the year, this Company acquired 20 combination passenger or freight steam
locomotives; 13 1,000-horsepower Diesel-electric switching locomotives; 15 600-horsepower
Diesel-electric switching locomotives; 4 6,000-horsepower Diesel-electric passenger loco¬
motives; 43 large-capacity passenger locomotive tenders; 1,000 55-ton steel hopper cars;
6,104 55-ton steel boxcars; and 142 lightweight sleeping cars purchased from The Pullman
Company.

Mileage Operated

The mileage operated by the Company at the close of the year, compared with the
previous year, was as follows:
 

Main line and branches

Leased lines and lines operated under contract

Trackage rights

Total
 

The reduction of .02 mile in main line and branches is due to minor adjustments.

The increase of .77 mile in lines operated under lease or contract is due to operation of
Zanesville Terminal Railroad mileage being assumed by this Company between Spangler
and West Zanesville, Ohio, amounting to 2.55 miles, offset in part by abandonment of .96
mile of Hne of the Toledo Branch, Michigan Central Railroad, at Toledo, Ohio, by authority
of I. C. C. Finance Docket No. 14777; retirement of .69 mile of hne of the Green Run
Branch, Toledo and Ohio Central Railway, at Modoc, Ohio; and minor adjustments of
.13 mile.

The reduction in trackage rights of 1.26 miles is due to decreased trackage of .92 mile
over Manistee and North Eastern Railroad (owned by the State of Michigan) between
Grayling Junction and Portage Lake Branch, Michigan, owing to removal of track; de¬
creased trackage of .74 mile over Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at JeffersonviUe, Indiana,
owing to retirement of track; offset in part by an increase of .43 mile in trackage over Union
Depot Company (Columbus, Ohio) due to transfer of other main track to first main track;
and minor adjustments resulting in a net decrease of .03 mile.
 

1945

Miles
3,629.67
6,306.52

809.57
 

1944

Miles
3,629.69
6,305.75

810.83
 

Miles
.02 Dec
.77 Inc
1.26 Dec
 

10,745.76
 

10,746.27
 

.51 Dec