Measures are also in progress for increasing very materially the engines of the company, early the coming season. One has just been received, and two more are nearly ready for delivery. These will make the supply eleven engines of 20 tons each, one of 16, one of 15, and fourteen of 10 tons,-in all 27.

Two new passenger cars, each 50 feet long, and with smaller saloons for ladies, have also been lately put upon the road.

STATISTICS OF CONSTRUCTION.

The statistics required by law in the report, after the road is opened for use, are hereto subjoined, so far as they relate to its construction. And the undersigned add, also, in this connection, other data, which may prove useful or convenient for future reference.

The length of the Western Rail-road is as follows, viz: From its junction with the Boston and Worcester Road, near the depot of this company, in Worcester, to the east abutment of the Connecticut river

bridge, is

From thence to the line of New York, -
Total,

The length of the Albany and West Stockbridge
Road, from the State line to the face of the
Greenbush dock at the Hudson river, is

117.4248 or 117.804

Total of both roads made by this company,
The length of the Worcester road from their pas
senger depot in Boston, to its junction with the
Western, is -

Total from the depot in Boston to the Hudson
river,

Add from Greenbush dock to Albany shore,

Total from depot in Boston to do.

ms. 200.1883ft." 200.357

ELEVATIONS.

For these, the base line of the Worcester company is assumed, it being the grade of that road, across the mill-dam basin in Boston, and the following are the elevations above that base line.

The depot of this company at Worcester,

The Charlton summit (between Worcester and the Connecticut river,

The depot at Springfield,

476.83 feet.

906.75 66

70.91 66

The track at the State line,

The summit in Washington (between the Connecticut and Hudson rivers,)

1.456.51 66

The summit in Canaan (between the State line and
Greenbush,)

The depot in Greenbush,

Thus it appears, that the summit in Washington is the highest elevation of the road, and that this is above

and above the base line of the Worcester road, in Boston,

66

PLANES.

Upon the Western road there are separate planes, 142 of which are

The following table presents a schedule of the 130 planes, not level, with their several inclinations in feet per mile, and the aggregate lengths of each class of gradients.

The following table shows the number of curves, with the different radii in feet, and the lengths of the different classes in feet and miles:

The shortest curves are severally of radii of 955 and 882 feet, and they are at each end of the Tuttle Bend bridge, on the north line of Russell.

The whole number of planes on the Albany road is

82

The following table shows the inclinations in feet per mile, and the lengths of each class of gradients :—

No. of Curves. Length of Radii in feet. No. of Curves. Length of Radii in feet.