ineers for the
tunnel extension, until his retirement by age limit on February 28th,
1906, located and started the construction of the line from Harrison to
the western portals of the Bergen Hill Tunnels, which latter point was
the westernmost limit of authority of the Board of Consulting Engineers.
Mr. A. C. Shand succeeded Mr. Brown as Chief Engineer of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and as Chief Engineer of the Meadows
Division, with the writer, who was Assistant Chief Engineer of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and had been closely associated with Mr.
Brown at the time of the location of the line and its earlier period of
construction. H. E. Leonard, M. Am. Soc. C. E., Engineer of Bridges and
Buildings, Pennsylvania Railroad Company, designed the Hackensack River
Bridge, the superstructures of the other bridges, and the rail-locking
device on the Hackensack River Draw-bridge. The surveys and construction
of the Meadows Division and of the Harrison Transfer Yard have been in
charge of Mr. William C. Bowles, Engineer of Construction.

[Illustration: PLATE XX, FIG. 1.--LIFT RAIL AND LOCKING DEVICE, DRAW
PARTLY OPEN.]

[Illustration: PLATE XX, FIG. 2.--LIFT RAIL AND LOCKING DEVICE, DRAW
CLOSED.]

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote A: Presented at the meeting of June 1st, 1910.]

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