Boston and Providence probably got their coal via Beacon (CNE or NY&NE) and then Poughkeepsie (CNE and then NYNH&H) in an era when Erie was fighting it out with Philadelphia & Reading for the traffic. Randy Brown - -------------------------------------------------------------- >> The DL&W and NYS&W both used the Lackawanna's Hoboken piers to transfer >> anthracite into barges for delivery in New York Harbor in the 1880s. >> >> Name the single largest consignee for each railroad of anthracite dumped >> at >> Hoboken in those years. > > The utility companies of Providence and Boston. Not in the 1880s <g>. The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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