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(erielack) A controverial topic?

Paul and List,

I've given Henry an article for the next newsletter dealing with the
DL&W in 1882. The line to Buffalo wasn't even built and speculation
was running high on how it would extend to Chicago. Paul's question 
is very timely. I'll give you a quote from the Chicago Tribune of 9-15-82:
"It begins to be suspected that the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western 

and 'the Nickel Plate' are to pool their issues. If so a new trunk line all

 the way to Chicago to New York would thereby be established. The extension 

of the Lackawanna is soon to be finished to Buffalo, and the New York, Chicago

& St. Louis will soon be ready for business between here and Buffalo. Such a 

combination has been more than suspected for a long time. Can the other great 

trunk lines prevent it? The public rather await results with impatience. It is said

a new pool has been formed to bull the "Nickel Plate'."

From my readings and studies of the DL&W in the 1800's, Sam Sloan 
never gave up his quest to reach Chicago and beyond. It is really an
untold story. The DL&W did reach Chicago via its Great Lakes Fleet in 1883.
Probably 99.9% of DL&W historians did not know it even existed. Sam Sloam
employed two gentlemen, Marcus Drake and A. Fell, who spent 17 years
furthering the interests of the DL&W with western connections, and who
had a lasting impact on Great Lakes railroading, but you won't find their
names in any DL&W histories.

Ronald R. Dukarm   ELHS #532 ELHTS #66
rdukarm_@_adelphia.net

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