Freight traffic - Concluded. Average length of haul per ton, Average amount received for each ton of freight, Average amount received per ton per mile hauled, Freight earnings (gross) per mile of road operated, Freight earnings (gross) per freight-train mile run, Operating expenses: Operating expenses per mile of road operated, Operating expenses per revenue-train mile run, Train mileage: Miles run by passenger trains, Miles run by freight trains, . Total mileage of trains earning revenue, Miles run by switching trains, Average rate of fare per mile on single local tickets, Number of passengers (including season-ticket) to Boston, Employees: Average number of persons employed,. DESCRIPTION OF RAILROAD OWNED AND OPERATED. (See also tabulated description in preceding appendix to report.) Number of 8-wheel cars in passenger service with brakes for all wheels, 255 Number of 12-wheel cars in passenger service with brakes for all wheels, See table of Automatic Couplers on page 95. 6 Number of crossings of company's railroad with highways at Number of highway grade crossings protected by gates, 223 68 40 8 Number of highway grade crossings unprotected, 107 Number of highway grade crossings finally abolished during the year.. 1 Number of highway grade crossings now in process of abolition. 3 Number of highway grade crossings for abolition of which Number of highway bridges 18 feet (or more) above track, 2 36 24 14 ft. 7 in. RAILROAD CROSSINGS IN MASSACHUSETTS Crossings with Other Railroads. Concluded. Crossings of company's railroad with other railroads at grade (8 in number), viz. : Boston & Maine Railroad, Boston. Boston & Albany Railroad (Grand Junction), Somerville. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (Framingham & Lowell), Concord. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Fitchburg. Boston & Maine Railroad (Worcester & Nashua), Ayer. Boston & Maine Railroad (Worcester & Nashua), Worcester. Boston & Albany Railroad (Ware River), Winchendon. Boston & Albany Railroad (Ware River), Baldwinville. Number of above crossings at which interlocking signals are established, NUMBER AND 10, Concord Jet., NEW BRIDGES BUILT DURING THE YEAR. Description of Wooden trestle, Deck plate girder, . Description of Length of Spans and Number 61.6 ft., 2 tracks, 65.5 ft., 1 track,. 112 ft., 1 track, . 6 By Whom Built. Boston Bridge STATEMENT OF EACH ACCIDENT IN MASSACHUSETTS. July 1, 1899.- - West Cambridge: Dominico Verelli, jaw and collar bone broken and general bruises. Jumped from a moving passenger train, between stations. July 1. Boston: W. H. Clary, freight brakeman, hip and arm injured. While climbing down from top of freight car, hand-grab pulled out and he fell on to ground. July 4. Williamstown: J. Bailey, coal shoveller, holding stake on engine No. 271 while engine No. 256 was pushing No. 271 onto turn-table; stake broke and struck Bailey in the stomach; bruises, apparently not serious. July 5. Baldwinville: T. J. O'Horo, freight brakeman, riding on flat car loaded with lumber, right hand and leg bruised by being caught between end of lumber and brake wheel; the lumber slid when car struck train. July 7. South Acton: Martin Baker, section man, leg badly squeezed. While sitting on end of passenger coach on siding, eating his dinner, with legs hanging down over end of car, train backed in for milk car, which stood a few feet away, and milk car moved back, squeezing his leg. July 8. Hudson: Patrick Gateley, cut and bruised and shaken up. Gateley was driving over crossing in an enclosed baker's wagon, and he says when about two and half rods from crossing his horse became unmanageable and rushed onto crossing, and team was struck by train No. 16. No crossing tender maintained at this point; electric gong said to have been working all right. Horse killed and wagon destroyed. July 9.- Baldwinville: Charles Ross, engineer, badly sprained foot; W. W. Newman, fireman, sprained hip; H. F. Gibbs, fireman, cuts on face; E. G. Mallory, brakeman, sprained ankle; Elsie Frolund, passenger, nervous shock. Express passenger train No. 3 struck engine No. 275 of freight express No. 278 as the latter was backing from west-bound main onto siding. July 11.- Concord: Andrew McManus, nineteen years old, trying to board a moving passenger train at Lake Walden, fell off and wheels ran over his foot, crushing it badly. July 12.- West Acton: young man, giving his name as Timothy McCarty, found lying on track with one leg cut off and the other crushed; he was unable to make any statement; no information obtained. July 12. Williamstown: P. A.. Lanahan, freight conductor, right leg scalded from knee to ankle by water and steam, by the overflow from injector as he was walking by engine No. 271. - July 12. South Ashburnham: F. A. Compton, freight brakeman, while uncoupling freight cars had left arm crushed between dead-woods; no bones broken. July 13. South Acton: L. C. Hall, fireman, freight express No. 6, jumped off engine, fell and fractured wrist. Freight express No. 135 was taking water at South Acton; freight express No. 6 ran onto rear of freight express No. 135. July 15. — West Cambridge: James Miller, freight brakeman, while riding on side of freight car was struck by switch, receiving cut on forehead and bruise on arm. July 18.-North Leominster: Ati Jokelo and August Matson, walking on track, were struck by train No. 20 and instantly killed. A sharp curve at this place, and a freight was passing on the west-bound track. |