the New York Division, were
increased to provide for the power and repairs necessary for the next
few years. In order to reach the Meadows shops and round-house without
interfering with the present passenger and freight tracks, it was
necessary to build track connections with the Meadows Yard. Twelve
stalls of the existing round-house were extended to accommodate the
motive power; a large transfer table and pit were increased in size, and
an additional ash-pit and engine storage tracks were constructed.

Any extensive repairs to the electric engines will be made for the
present in the Jamaica Shops, Long Island; and the large shops at
Trenton, on the New York Division, as well as the Meadows Shops, will be
available for repairs to the steam locomotives. There is ample room at
Harrison, and plans have been prepared providing for storage and light
repair of cars, locomotives, electric motors, and rapid transit trains,
if the future demands require such construction at this place.

The rapid transit line will extend from Park Place, Newark, to Harrison,
and thence over the present line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which
will be electrified, to a junction with the Hudson and Manhattan
Railroad Company's tunnel tracks at Prior Street, Jersey City. It will
be constructed and owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. A joint
and frequent through service will be conducted by both companies between
Park Place, Newark, and the terminal of the Hudson and Manhattan
Railroad, in New York City, by the use of multiple-unit trains similar
to those now being operated in the Hudson and Manhattan tunnels. These
trains will pick up and discharge Pennsylvania Railroad passengers at
the Harrison Transfer Station, so that all passengers bound for lower
New York City, who desire to use the tunnel service, will make the
change at Harrison instead of at Jersey City as at present. Provision is
made for two additional platforms, each 1,100 ft. long, to accommodate
the rapid transit trains when the present platforms prove inadequate.
The existing passenger tracks between the Harrison Transfer Yard and
Summit Avenue, Jersey City, where a new local passenger station will be
constructed, will be used jointly by steam and electric trains.

The embankment for the Harrison Yard was made, under contract dated July
21st, 1906, with Henry Steers, Incorporated, of New York City, of cellar
earth from New York City, and with rock and earth excavated from t