RE: RE: (erielack) Milk Traffic

["Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>]

Good point Randy.  I do remember how (eternally) long it used to take to drive from Binghamton
(there's no P in Binghamton) to NYC before 17 was rebuilt.

SGL 
 
> Money - yes.  Your tax dollars - And railroads' tax dollars - at work!
> Principally, Route 17, and then I-80 - speeding the trucks 
> from dairy to market!
> 
> Randy Brown
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> I think it was a combination of three things:
> Money - yes, cheaper
> Money - yes, the rails found out it wasn't really covering 
> costs Time - trucks were faster to the destination.
> 
> 
> SGL 


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