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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Ballast 



The materials used by the railroads for ballast, filling etc. 

 are not easily classified because separate accounts are not 

 usually kept with each kind. The table below gives the amount 

 of each where distinction was made. Otherwise all sorts are 

 grouped together. 



It was my original intention to ascertain the amount of geo- 

 logic material mined by the railroads in western New York. 

 Later it was found necessary to extend the limits so as to include 

 the divisions terminating as far east on the New York Central 

 system as Syracuse, and as far as Binghamton on the Lacka- 

 wanna and Erie roads. The material excavated from their tunnel 

 and wheel pit extension by the Niagara Falls Power Co. I have 

 also included in the same table. 



Geological materials excavated by railroads Sep 1, 1901-Aug. 31, 1902 



RAILROAD 



Location of 

 deposit 



Buffalo Creek Lake Erie 



shore, Buf- 

 | falo 



Delaware, Lacka- Nichols. .. . 



wanna & Western 



Erie J 



Lehigh, western div-| 



ision 



Lehigh Valley, Au- 

 burn division 



Lehigh Valley, Au- 

 burn division 



Lehigh Valley, Au- 

 burn division 



Lake Shore & Michi- 



gan Southern 



Lackawanna Steel Bay View. 

 Co. 



Brookton . . 

 Perry ville. . 

 Groton .... 



New York Central . 



New York, Chicago 

 and St Louis 

 (Nickel Plate) 



Pennsylvania R. R. 

 B. & A. V. division 



Buffalo, Rochester 

 and Pittsburg 



Niagara Falls Power 

 Co. 



Walworth 

 New York 

 Ce n tral; 

 Newark 

 W. Shore 



Ischua 



Scottsville . 



Niagara 

 Falls 



Amount 



6000 c. yd sand. 



153,450 c. yd, 



47,500 c. yd gravel.., 

 60,000 c. yd gravel, 



2000 c. yd of lime- 

 stone for riprap 



20,000 c. yd gravel 

 and clay 



639,450 c. yd, 



Remarks 



Erie and Lehigh Valley, 

 lessees. Use mostly 

 cinders from eleva- 

 tors for filling etc. 



151,100 yd gravel; 2350 

 yd earth 



No report 



Also buys crushed stone 

 for ballast 



250,000 c. yd gravel 



96,500 c. yd gravel 

 59,883 yd 



81,426 c yd rock. 



Get gravel from pits in 

 Ohio 



Shale and clay for build- 

 ing railroad and filling 

 yard. To Sep. 1, 1902 



Obtain supply of gravel 

 from Pennsylvania 



39 698 yd gravel 

 5 965 yd sand 

 14 220 yd earth 



59 883 



Excavated from wheel pit 

 and tunnel. Used for 

 filling 



