PUBLIC DOCUMENT No. 12 1905 53D ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Railroad Commissioners TO WHICH ARE ADDED STATISTICAL TABLES COMPILED FROM THE Annual Reports of the Steam Railroad Companies of the State for the Year Ending June 30, and of the Street Railway Companies for the Same Period PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE LEGISLATURE Bartford Press: THE CASE, LOCKWOOD & BRAINARD COMPANY REPORT. To His Excellency HENRY ROBERTS, Governor of Connecticut: The Fifty-third Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners is herewith submitted, containing the reports of the operations of the steam railroad and street railway companies for the year ending June 30, 1905, with the statistical tables compiled therefrom, and a condensed statement of the proceedings of the Board to the date of this report. Important improvements have been projected and are now in various stages of progress on the different lines of steam railroads throughout the State, involving a large expenditure for the increase and safety of their transportation facilities. A new doubletrack steel bridge over the Connecticut River at Warehouse Point on the Hartford Division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, was completed and brought into use in June last. A four-track steel bridge, with liftdraw, over the Saugatuck River in the town of Westport on the New York Division of the same road was opened for traffic during the month of December, and similar four-track structures are in process of construction on the same division over the Mianus River at Cos Cob and the Housatonic River at Naugatuck Junction. On its Shore Line Division a new double-track steel bridge is being built over the Connecticut River at Saybrook, and numerous other steel structures of less magnitude have been built on other divisions in various parts of the State of sufficient strength to meet present traffic requirements. The Bridgeport improvement which has been in progress for several years was finally completed during the past summer by bringing into use one of the best planned and equipped passenger-station buildings |