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RE: (erielack) Special Day? What if?
- Subject: RE: (erielack) Special Day? What if?
- From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:09:43 -0400
Gary Kazin opined:
> What cargoes would a surviving Lackawanna carry today? Coal was a
> big part of the DLW's business through WW II, but it's virtually gone
> here. Would there be a market for anthracite for power plants, or
> export like NS and CSX do at Baltimore and Norfolk?
There's no room in the Hudson River to bring in one of those export coal ships, is there? I doubt coal would play any role in a modern DL&W, if it still existed.
> How would a surviving DLW participate in intermodal traffic that runs
> on CSX and NS? How would this traffic get onto DLW, given that it
> only went to Buffalo - would it be like today's NYS&W, a niche player
> used mostly for detours?
If the DL&W still existed today, it would have already been merged into one of those two roads. I'm sure the N&W and B&O guys wonder the same thing - but their roads got merged into the big NS and CSX conglomerates.
- Paul
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