° REPORT OF THE PANAMA RAILROAD COMPANY. dk

MAINTENANCE OF WAY AND STRUCTURES.

The total expenses have increased $138,143.89 over 1907, or 31. 33
per cent, due principally to large forces necessary to keep up new tracks
on fills and to heavy rail, tie and switch renewals. The coming
year will show a decrease in maintenance expense because physical
conditions are excellent and the second main track embankment has
had most of its settlement.

Track department.—The second main line has been completed and
is now in use between milepost 74 and milepost 364, milepost 404,
and milepost 464, and 1 mile of the La Boca branch, a total of 352
miles of double main track.

During the year 45,000 ties, 52,000 cubic yards of gravel, and
25,000 cubic yards of crushed rock have been used.

New side, house, and commissary tracks laid with 70-pound steel
have been constructed as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sidetracks. | House tracks. | - Commissary Total.
: | acks
Location. Jv aa ae eas Bl a Se i eC a Le Sree 7G
| No. | Length. No. | ee No. a Length, No. | Length.
as | ae a SBS Ve Dee
| | !
| Feet | Feet. | Feet | Feet.
MUOTCA NECLO One es eee [eioe Sapna ee ates ela OTT es ee coe aa gene les 911
ETO LOS soe eee EN ee as | 12] PASO aie tees ee coe iio ata ieee te 23
PSam Pablo 6 oe 1, 202 | fete is ese oe ee Laie e208
GOES ORE ae ee ee Sen oe se ae | 1 | EADO ee [Nearer cree le enos cpio bee 1} 1, 450
Tas: Cascadas: sis oes ae es [Soe e [Sees ee (eee eee 1 | 1,100 1 1, 100
CUS eye es at oe Re eras Mier Pes ee pee ea ' ra [255] 1 590 | 2 1,315
PedrogMigiieloe ei ss ei ae ee [apes eeereani eee Rea he eau ee ihe Od | 1 515
Mina Oreste Sls Sues, SRE ae sea He Sea ee ee jester is Oe ote Negue on ee 1 | 1, 120
ovale chen. seins: Stee pe ae se oa ea 4008 2 86 3 a 2,265) ~ 91 47,909

 

 

 

a Pincade: 1,500 feet puilt dunine | 1907 at ie San Pablo, and Goreeun

At Mount Hope a material yard containing 12,210 feet of track
was laid for facilitating the handling of material at the Isthmian
Canal Commission material and store yard. The cost of this work
oe borne by the Isthmian Canal Commission, for whose use it was
Ut.

At Colon a temporary coach yard was taken up and a permanent
one containing 1,725 feet of track built. The old terminal has also
been removed and the eround filled in for quarters. This provides
fifty of the choicest building lots in Colon, lying along the beach
between the church and the hospital.

The old Panama yard has been entirely remodeled in order to
accommodate increased passenger business and facilitate the handling
of freight. As now being built, the yard consists of an 8-track
diamond 1,300 feet long, a terminal yard consisting of new turntable,
engine house, water station, cinder pit, and machine shop on one side
of the diamond, and 4 industry tracks on the other side, a 4-track
passenger yard and 3 pairs of team and freight-house tr: acks 700 feet
long. The team tracks and freight house are located alongside a
new street that has been opened from the end of Balboa avenue at
Sixteenth street to the passenger depot. The work necessitated laying
the following amount of track: |

Feet.
New 70 pound sted 2 7, 740
S: El 70-poumd steel. 11, 510

SoG SOpound steel SS ee ee 3, 450