Re: (erielack) Re: Runthroughs

["Curtis Brookshire" <curtis.brookshire_@_verizon.net>]

Actually we're both right.  Prior to being assigned to run to Penn Station
by the USRA in 1919, the B&Os trains were hauled to Jersey City by
Reading/CNJ crews and power.  But when they were forced out in 1926, B&O
president Dan Willard decided to acquire trackage rights and run to Jersey
City with B&O power.  This is also when they started "motor coach" service
from trainside and the CNJ paved over tracks 2 and 3 in Jersey City station
and installed a turntable for the busses, um I mean "motor coaches" (B&O was
much too classy to use "busses").  However, as Ed Crist mentioned in his
softcover book "B&O Heritage", having trackage rights in New Jersey also
meant paying New Jersey taxes.  The B&O then relinquished trackage rights
and just turned their trains over to RDG/CNJ crews continuing to Jersey City
with B&O power.  That arrangement was in place all the way until Conrail.

Curtis

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>
To: "'Curtis Brookshire'" <curtis.brookshire_@_verizon.net>;
<erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 3:05 PM
Subject: RE: (erielack) Re: Runthroughs


>
>  Additionally B&O Royal
> > Blue Line trains
> > kept their B&O power through to Jersey City after they were
> > forced out of
> > Penn Station in the mid '20s.
> >
> > Curtis Brookshire
> > Manassas, VA
>
> I beliee that those were not "run-through power" trains.  They were B&O
trains running on trackage
> rights all the way to JC, that is, with B&O crews.
>
> SGL
>


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