The Woburn Branch, 2 miles long, belongs to the Lowell road; the Medford Branch, 2 miles, the Methuen Branch, 3 miles, and the Great Falls Branch (in New Hampshire), 3 miles, to the Maine; the West Roxbury and Dedham Branch, 5.35 miles, and the Pawtucket Branch, 4.2 miles, to the Providence; the Brookline Branch, 1.6 miles, the Newton Lower Falls Branch, 2.5 miles, the Saxonville Branch, 4 miles, the Millbury Branch, 3.2 miles, and the Milford Branch, 12 miles, to the Worcester; the Marblehead Branch, 3 miles, the Gloucester Branch, 13.5 miles, and the Salisbury Branch, 3.4 miles, to the Eastern; the Fresh Pond and Watertown Branch, 10 miles, and the Lancaster and Sterling Branch, 9 miles of which are completed, to the Fitchburg. The Worcester Branch road is half a mile in length, the Bridgewater Branch, 6.5 miles, the Chicopee Branch, 3 miles, and the Granite (in Quincy) road, 3 miles. Including such of these as have not been before given, the total length of what may be called the Massachusetts roads, is 1,291.65 miles. Besides these, there are roads in process of construction, leading from the main lines in Massachusetts into other States. During the session of 1846, the Massachusetts Legislature chartered eighteen roads and branches, with an aggregate capital of $5,795,000; during the session of 1847, sixteen, with an aggregate capital of $4,822,000; during the session of 1818, nineteen, with an aggregate capital of $7,105,000, and the capital stock of the railroads already in operation was increased, $3,945,000; during the session of 1849, fourteen, with an aggregate capital of $2,470,000, and the capital stock of the railroads in operation was increased $1,150,000; during the session of 1850, three roads or branches, with an aggregate capital of $740,000, and the capital stock of the roads in operation was increased $925,000; during the session of 1851, eleven roads or branches, with a capital stock of $3,320,000, and the capital stock of the roads in operation was increased $1,515,000; during the session of 1852, eleven roads or branches, with a capital stock of $2,145,000, and the capital stock of the roads in operation, or chartered, was increased $2,240,000; during the session of 1853, six roads or branches, with a capital stock of $1,535,000, and the capital stock of the roads in operation or chartered was increased $650,000; and during the session of 1854, fourteen roads or branches, with a capital stock of $3,410,000, and the capital stock of one road in operation was increased $ 60,000. By the returns on the Massachusetts roads, it appears that there were during the year 74 casualties by which persons were killed, or injured so that they died therefrom, and 38 casualties which did not prove fatal. Of the 74 persons killed, 24 were employees of the road. 26 were persons walking or sleeping on the track, or attempting to cross it while the trains were approaching. Three persons were killed in attempting to get on the cars, after they were in motion. Four passengers fell from the cars while in motion, and one death was suicide. Of the 33 not fatal casualties, 2 befell employees of the roads; 3, persons jumping on or off the cars while in motion. 18 passengers were killed or fatally injured, and 22 were injured, during the year; but all, with one exception, on the Boston and Maine, and Providence and Worcester roads. More than 12,000,000 passengers were carried over the roads during that period. 2. Other Completed Railroads in New England, October, 1854. Name of Road. Receipts Expenses) in 1853. in 1853. $ $ Bangor and Piscataquis (to Oldtown) Buckfield Branch (Atl. & St. Law. R.) 13.00 66 Calais and Baring, Franklin (Machias Port to Whitney Concord (Nashua to Concord), Troy and Rutland (Salem to Eagle Albany Northern (Eagle Bridge to Albany), Western Vt. (Rutland to N. Ben- Troy and Boston (North Benning- Rutland and Whitehall (Castleton, 23.50 69.00 13.00 S 2,768,400 370,530 232,230 27.00 815,000 47.00 25.50 15.00 120.00 5,577.000 495,397 240,000 24.00 1,000,000 118.00 12,000,000 48.00 46.50 17.50 30.00 51.00 1,100,000 32.00 7.00 50.00 62.00 1,508,000 283,919 127,031 3,470,000 639,528 304,180 Hartford, Providence, and Fishkill, 120 00 4,000,000 1,705.05 3. Principal Lines of Railroad not completed, or in Process of Construction, in New England, October, 1854. Name. York and Cumberland, From Great Falls, N. H., to Portland. Length, about 50 miles. Boston, Concord, and Montreal, From Concord, N. H., via Haverhill, to a point of inter. section with some one of the Montreal roads. Length, about 109 miles. Open to Wells River, 93 miles. Concord and Claremont, or Merrimack and Connecticut River, From Concord, N. H., to Claremont, where it intersects the Sullivan road. Length, 50 miles. Open to Bradford, 25 miles. Open from Contoocookville, on the Concord and Claremont road, to Hillsboro' Bridge, 14 miles. From Manchester to its junction with the Concord and Claremont road in Bradford. Open to Henniker, 26 miles. From Dover, N. H., to Haverhill. Open to Alton Bay, 28 miles * Worked by Concord road. + Worked by Nashua and Lowell road. Great Falls and Conway, Troy and Greenfield, From Great Falls to Conway. Open to Milton, 12.5 miles. From Greenfield. Mass., to Troy, N. Y. Connecticut and Passumpsic River, From Hartford, Vt., up the west bank of the Connecticut, to the Grand Trunk Railway. Length about 114 miles. Open to St. Johnsbury, Vt., 61 miles. Canal, . Naugatuck,. From New Haven to Springfield. Open to Tariffville, 45 miles. Open from Bridgeport, Conn., to Winsted, 62 miles. 4. New York Railroads in Operation throughout their entire Length, September 30, 1853. Buffalo, Corning, &N.Y., Miles. 90.00 $ 1,975,421 65,293 88,542 194.893 492,130 116,987 2,220,592 372,948 51,195 40,462 233,405 134,805 1,147,248 146,855 167,826 982,292 1,216,934 91.00 905,710 2,597,877 22.00 564,117 71,674 69.00 1,100,000 1,033,130 63.00 426,117 807,141 96.75 1,196,619 2,008,760 2,634,314 53,589 157,419 35.00 687,000 486,722 1,076,321 100,732 82,026 144.00 3,727,827 8,344,439 11,780,954 1,298,617 1,481,048 84.00 1,875,148 624,615 2,478,011 329,373 218,960 464.00 10,091,000 22,858,895 31,224,834 4,484,986 3,554,290 252,660 130.66 5,127,550 2,121,646 7,249,196 909,366 642,377 262,236 534.25 22,213,983 11,564,034 22,044,529 3,570,187 2,105,757 1,619,299 118.00 1,611,527 3,959, 199 5,081,373 443,212 477,485 35.00 350,000 208,760 25.00 610,000 112,000 Sackett'sHar. & Ellisb'g, 306,810 Troy and Bennington, Troy and Boston, 694,757 1,080,405 Troy and Greenbush, 6.00 294,796 84,412 78,537 Troy Union, Watertown and Rome, 96.00 1.346,075 748,518 1,957,992 334.901 203,327 127,609 Total, 2,224.41 54,696,881 61,451,895 100,963,663 13,174,147 10,044,990 2,494,771 The Albany and Schenectady, the Utica and Schenectady, the Troy and Schenectady, the Utica and Syracuse, the Syracuse and Rochester, the Buffalo and Rochester, the Mohawk Valley, the Syracuse and Utica Direct, and the Buffalo and Lockport Railroads, are included in the New York Central. The following New York roads were in process of construction September 30, 1853, and their condition is thus stated on that date. There were, besides, 455 miles of road in process of construction at that time. Washington Branch, 31 1,650,000 369,230 181,371 Baltimore & Susquehanna (to Columbia, Pa.) 57 3,370,282 413,673 152,536 Westminster Branch, 10 Hanover Branch, 12 Annapolis and Elk Ridge, 21 400,000 Winchester and Potomac, 32 Richmond, Fredericksburg, & Potomac, Richmond and Petersburg, 22 Petersburg (to Weldon, N. C.), 644 Richmond & Danville (Richmond to Clover), 95 1.164.000 227,593 155,000 1,500,000 Central (Richmond to Staunton), Orange & Alexandria (Alex. to Gordonsville). * Acquia Creek to Richmond. From Washington to Acquia Creek by steamers. 138 2,000,000 176,485 100,000 12 98 1,900,000 |