Okay guys . . . Open the Envelope Please . . . According to notes in the Coal Trade Journal, the biggest single customers of the DL&W and NYS&W Anthracite over the piers at Hoboken in the years both were there were the Manhattan Elevated Railway and the Brooklyn Elevated Company, respectively. Within 20 years, both companies would no longer be powered by steam locomotives, but both would be purchasing anthracite for their power plants to generate electricity. The NYS&W could not supply enough anthracite for the Brooklyn Elevated alone, so some came off the CNJ. F.A. Potts -- the NYS&W President (and after his death, his company) handled the bissing on the contract; the DL&W Coal Dept handled its own bidding. The Els helped make both cities the pre-emeninece that was the Consolidated New York at the turn of the 20th Century. Jay Gould, of course, served on both the DL&W and Manhattan Elevated BODs in the 1880s; as we know, he also put the Erie into the Coal business, which helped support the latter right up until the post-CR days -- likely the Erie's most profitable investment in its history. I ***knew** you'd kick yourselves at the obvious answer . . . Cheers, Jim The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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