RE: (erielack) Lackawanna & The Nickel Plate

[Frank P Adams <frank.p.adams_@_verizonbusiness.com>]

Didn't the DL&W own a substantial part of the NKP stock and then sold it for
some emergency or capital improvement?

Frank Adams


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Subject: (erielack) Lackawanna & The Nickel Plate

List,

It seems that a merger of these two may have been viable, as they worked
together in freight and passenger service pre-EL. 

The short fast freight concept may have worked because of  the NKP's mostly
single track main and the Lackawanna's heavy grades. 

The NKP's coal traffic might have helped except that much of the Ohio coal
is high sulfur. The Erie didn't have a whole lot of coal on it's lines
except the Bradford Div. and the Lisbon Branch. 

I don't think that the NKP would want to touch the Lackawanna's commuter
district with a 10 foot pole, though. 

Just my opinions, they're not worth too much. 

Rick Fleischer


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