Re: (erielack) Re: (LVRR) LVRR Divisions

[Blue Moon Network Administrator <"root_@_net.bluemoon.net">]

On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Schuyler G Larrabee wrote:

> > > Buffalo Creek- 21 locomotives
> >
> > That's really interesting.
> 
> Said Henry Priebe.
> 
> Yes it is, I though that the BCK stuff was shared 50/50 between the Erie and
> the LV.  Forty two locos does seem like a lot, but then I remember from
> reading some of the great history of Buffalo (to bad it seems to be mostly
> past) that there was a LOT of industry there.  Maybe there was enough to
> justify that stud of power.

There was a huge amount of industry, grain and coal shipping going on around
the BCK's domain. The more I have thought about it the more possible it seems
that they had 40+ locos in the early part of the century. I think most people
have seen the BCK boxcars with the flour sack heralds on them, they were there
for a reason, Buffalo in the earlier part of the century was the world's
largest grain center and the BCK was smack dab in the middle of all the
elevators!

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