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RE: (erielack) A couple of items
Ed, I've rode in the coaches many times & never had a problem seeing out the
windows. They're NOT high.
Walt Smith
>From: "Montgomery, Edward T" <Edward.Montgomery_@_fcps.edu>
>Reply-To: "Montgomery, Edward T" <Edward.Montgomery_@_fcps.edu>
>To: <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
>Subject: (erielack) A couple of items
>Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:55:12 -0500
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>It's taken me some time to collect my thoughts on this but in the recent
>CLASSIC TRAINS there story in CUT brought up some interesting items I
>had never thought of. I had always thought Lackawanna management
>dropped the ball when it came to acquiring the NKP early in the 20th
>Century. Well the article points out that New York Central had an
>interest in the NKP back then as well as owning Lackawanna stock. If
>the Van Sweragin's didn't control the NKP, NYC would have probably
>either shut it down or transferred some of their mainline to NKP's ROW.
>I'm not sure who had the better grades. NYC owning shares of NKP and
>DL&W probably prohibited any thought of DL&W acquiring the NKP.
>Lackawanna was effectively locked into the New York-Buffalo lines with
>little or no hope of expanding west. Possibly they could have
>considered an end-to-end merger with the Wabash at Buffalo via Canada
>but NYC would have probably opposed that as well. I wonder what
>Lackawanna Management thought of all that back then. When the
>depression hit followed by the loss of the anthracite business
>Lackawanna was in a position where NYC didn't need it's interest and NKP
>or any other Midwest carrier probably didn't want DL&W as a partner.
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>And then there is the MODEL RAILROADER article on the DL&W lightweight
>coaches. Very interesting. Question: I never rode in these cars. I
>have heard people complain about them. Something about not being able
>to effectively see out the windows. Where the seats too low? These
>coaches are really unique. Other lightweights have small windows at the
>car ends. The Lackawanna coaches did not. It looks like a kind of
>custom design.
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>Ed Montgomery
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