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

["Schuyler G Larrabee" <"sgl2_@_ix.netcom.com">]

I'd be curious as to just what type those 21 engines were . . . I'm betting
a bunch of switchers.

SGL
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To: Schuyler G Larrabee <"sgl2_@_ix.netcom.com">
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Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: (erielack) Re: (LVRR) LVRR Divisions


> 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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