>> jguthrie_@_pipeline.com wrote: >> >> Anthracite Quiz Question of the Day: >> >> The DL&W and NYS&W both used the Lackawanna's Hoboken piers to transfer >> anthracite into barges for delievery in New York Harbor in the 1880s. >> >> Name the single largest consignee for each railroad of anthracite dumped >> at > Hoboken in those years. > > My guess is the City of New York even though at that time it consisted of > just Manhattan and the Bronx or the City of Brooklyn. Anthracite was > used primarily for home and building heating. Both customers were in the private sector, and although both remained large consumers of anthracite for the length of their corporate existence, neither used anthracite in quite the same way as they had twenty years hence . . . Have I given it away yet? <g>. Cheers, Jim The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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