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Title: History of the Old Colony Railroad : a complete history of the Old Colony Railroad from 1844 to the present time in two parts
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Old Colony Railroad Company Industries Railroads
Publisher: Boston : Hager & Handy
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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arried, and 299,394 tons carried one mile or more; 26,225 passen-gers were carried one mile or more to and from other roads. Theaverage rate of speed adopted for passenger trains was 20 miles perhour, and for freight trains 12 1-2 miles. Messrs. Nathan Carruth and Josiah Quincy, Jr., were succeededin 1847 by Mr. Elias Hasket Derby in the Board of Directors. Intheir report they claim that the floating debt had increased to atotal of $452,795.10, to meet which debt in part they were pos-sessed of lands and buildings which will not be required for thepurpose of the road which are variously estimated at from $160,-000 to $200,000, which will be disposed of for that purpose.A large portion of this debt was on time, and the directors werearranging to issue new stock with a view to meet the same. Thecost for grading and masonry for the year named was $13,986.68 and$3,032.29 respectively; for bridges, superstructure cost $22,880.-87, and station buildings, etc., $53,578.12. Land damages, land
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GAY HEAD, MARTHAS VINEYARD. OLD COLONY RAILROAD. 55 and fences cost $22,160.06, and $8,015 was expended on repairs oflocomotives; that on passenger and baggage cars was $5>397-5°>merchandise cars $2,160; engineering, etc., $27,129.16, making thetotal cost of equipment $1,639,632.16, which amount included $125,-461.63 paid for the Abington and Bridgewater Branch, which spurwas pushed forward during the year in order to intercept the FallRiver road which was rapidly building toward Boston. The amountof business done by the road had considerably increased duringthe twelve months, as will be seen from the report following :105,105 miles were run by passenger trains, and 27,444 miles byfreight trains, all others running 19,644 miles. The number ofpassengers carried was 389,994 ; those carried one mile or more,4,904,861 ; 42,707 1-10 tons of merchandise were transported and748,550 6-10 tons more than one mile. The number of passengersconveyed one mile or more to and from other roads

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