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NEW YORK STATE GAZETTEER.
Official Summary of Bail Road Statistics
$ 439,004.97
1,000,000.00
804,647.99
250.000.00
1,000,000.00
680.000.00
1,913,000.00
687.000.00
380.000.00
800.000.00
, 1,575,098,79
1,289,933.98
662,500.00
220,000.00
1,049,000.00
473,000.00
70,000.00
$ 600,000
1,000,000
1.500.000
250.000
1,000,000
1.500.000
1.300.000
1.500.000
380.000
800.000
300.000
200.000
175.000
4.000.000
3.000.000
24,182,400
10,500,000
8.000.000
3.000.000
4,571,900
350.000
2.000.000
610.000
800,000
175.000
300.000
500.000
800.000
750.000
1,201,300
1.170.000
80.000
1,000,000
275.000
325.000
30,000
1.500.000
1,625,098.79
1,289,933.98
715,070.60
220,000.00
"£574,532.19
1)221,378.49
480,402.28
. 70,000.00
Albany, Vermont & Canada................
Albany & West Stockbridge...............
Black River & Utica..........................
Blossburg & Corning......................
Brooklyn City...................................
Buffalo, New.York & Erie.............,.....
Buffalo & State Line..........................
Cayuga & Susquehanna.....................
Chemung.........................................
Eighth Avenue................................
Elmira, Canandaigua & Niagara Falls.,
Flushing..........................................
Hudson & Boston..............................
Hudson River...................................
Long Island......................................
New York Central.............................
New York & Erie..............................
New York & Harlem..........................
New York & New Haven....................
Ogdensburgh...................................
Oswego & Syracuse............................
Potsdam & Watertown......................
Rensselaer & Saratoga.......................
Rochester & Genesee Valley................
Sackets Harbor & Ellisburgh..............
Saratoga & Schenectady.....................
Saratoga & Whitehall........................
Second Avenue.................................
Sixth Avenue...................................
Syracuse, Binghamton & New York....
Third Avenue...................................
Troy & Bennington...........................
Troy & Boston..................................
Troy & Greenbush.............................
Troy & Rutland.................................
Troy Union......................................
Watertown & Rome...........................
32.95
38
34.94
14.81
20.15
142
68.34
34.61
17.36
5
46.84
7.80
17.33
144
95
555.88
446
130.75
62.25
118
35.91
75.36
25.22
18.45
18
21
40.86
8
4
81
6
5.38
27.23
6
17.27
2.14
96.76
3.39
34
"" 1.60
19.95
11.33
18
3.49
2.06
""2.90
.39
.50
106.50
10.08
311.80
282.50
28.84
63.82
17.75
2.21
2
2.01
1.25
1
1.57
3.87
8
4.38
7.09
6.50
.28
3.23
.04
2.75
2.14
11
. 131,339.90
175,000.00
3,758,466.59
1,852,715.79
24,182,400.00
11,000,000.00
5,717,100.00
2,980,839.33
236.500.00
''8,842,00000
639,497.67
14,402,634.69
26,438,016.55
. 5,151,287.21
2,163,500.00
’*"i97,oo6!6o
818.500.00
140.000.00
150.000.00
278.400.00
86,500.00
395.000.00
350.000.00
"T’5oo,ooo!6o
50,000.60
171.200.00
797.500.00
• 9,297,003.04.
653,263.02
14,402,634.69
27,170,274.41
5,298,927.88
2,194,051.07
’’"2i3,414.94
998.638.47
140.000.00
180,417.13
306.810.47
86.500.00
400,455.94
380.000.00
"l,763,486.80
90.600.00
172,295.37
1,028,582.99
396.340.00
633,077.15
610,000.00
555,450.10
167,485.89
300.000.00
600.000.00
627.200.00
750.000.00
1.200.130.00
1,170,000.00
1. 75,358.00
568,297.22
275.000.00
249,939.50
30,000.00
1.498.400.00
Total..........................,....................... 2,520.59
The Plattsburgh & Montreal R. R., 23.17 mi.' Champlain & St. Lawrence R. R., 2.5 mi. to Canada line; and Williamsport &
Elmira R. R., 8 mi. to Pennsylvania line, are not included in the above table, from default in reports. The gauge of the New
York & Erie R. R. and of the connecting roads is 6 ft., the same as that of several roads in Penn. The New York Central Tt. R.
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General Summary of Bail. Road Statistics for
the year ending September 30, 1858.
Length of roads in miles............... 3,124.71
Length of roads laid.................................................2,442.91
Length of roads in operation, excluding city roads.......2,397.62
Length of double track, including sidings.................... 970.48
Length of branches owned by company and laid......... 373.44
Length of double track on same................................. 6.37
Length of equivalent single track, exclusive of city
roads....................................................................3,709.08
Number of engine houses and shops............................ 183
Number of engines................................................... 738
Number of first-class passenger cars, rated as eight¬
wheeled.......................... 1,071
Number of second-class and emigrant cars................... 175
Number of baggage, mail, and express cars.................. 239
Number of freight cars.............................................. 9,014
Excluding City Roads. Miles.
Average rate of speed of ordinary passenger trains, inclu¬
ding stops............................................. 20.72
Average rate of same when in motion.............................25.53
Average rate of speed of express passenger trains, including
stops.................-.....................................................25.44
Average rate of same when in motion.............................29.39
Average rate of speed of freight trains, including stops 10.69
Average rate of same when in motion.............................13.95
Tons.
Average weight in tons of passenger trains, exclusive of
passengers and baggage............................................73.09
Average weight in tons of freight trains, exclusive of
freight.....................................................................129.27
Miles run by passenger trains................................ 11,578,745
The same, excluding city roads.............................. 6,145,862
Number of passengers of all classes carried in cars... 43,786,579
The same, excluding city roads.............................. 11,250,073
Number of miles traveled by passengers, or number
of passengers carried one mile, city roads not in¬
cluded..............................................................373,159,179 |
Miles run by freight trains....................... 5,417,456
Number of tons carried on freight trains................ 3,473,725
Total movement of freight, or number of tons carried
one mile...........................................................420,604,609
Classification of Freight.
Tons.
Products of the forest.............................................. 303,238
Products of animals............................................. 734,995
Vegetable food...................................... 914,206
Other agricultural products....................................... 77,174
Manufactures.................................... 325,596
Merchandise........................................................... 562,378
Other articles......................................................... 556,140
Total tonnage......................................................3,473,725
Costs.
Repairs of roadbed....................... $2,282,807.73
Cost of iron for repair.................,..................... 464,712.95
Repairs of buildings.......................................... 207,846.56
Repairs of fences and gates................................. 48,660.35
Taxes on real estate............................. 290,771.47
Other road expenses.......................................... 398,329.66
Total road expenses.......................................$3,693,129.72
Repairs of engines............................................. $ 930,627.16
Repairs of cars........................... 1,003,^06.26
Repairs of tools................................................ 82,975.15
Oil, waste, &c................................................... 112,518.64
Other costs........................................ 43,759.29
Total cost of repairs of machinery...................$2,173,786.69
OfiBce expenses, stationery, &c............... $ 86;427.81
Agents and clerks..................................... 622,981.68
Labor, loading and unloading freight,................. 449,060.96
Porters, watchmen, and switchmen attendance.... 420,180.66
Wood and water station attendance.............. ¥6,958.14 |
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