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From: Daniel McFadden dan DOT mcfadden AT gmail DOT com
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:06:14 -0400
Subject: Re: (erielack) Steamtown pictures
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In addition to the issue of Hudson County taxation, a promised rate
increase to follow the electrification project was reneged on.

The November 1931 issue of the GE Review magazine covers all technical
aspects of the project and also touches on the ignored promise of a rate
increase. Add to this the great depression and we have a troubled
railroad.

One amazing detail in this issue is that the electrification reduced
movements in Hoboken Terminal by 52 per cent despite an 18 per cent
increase in service.

Dan McFadden

> On Jun 16, 2019, at 10:28 AM, Don Liotta
wrote:
>
> Perhaps I'm missing too many pictures, but it appears to me there's
very few photographs taken outside of New Jersey after 1920 or so.
Before that, there was more of a mix of New York (which never seemed to
get too much attention), Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
>
> This also, to me, shows where management's head was. It seems that
once the coal company was sold off (and coal traffic already on a slow
and steady decline), the railroad saw its future in a rapidly expanding
New Jersey. Witness all the photos of the warehouse under construction
in Jersey City, the electrification of the commuter lines and other
infrastructure projects there.
>
> What's sad is, after all that investment by the railroad, the state
and Hudson County rewarded its efforts with excess taxation.
>
> In retrospect, the Lackawanna's future would probably have better been
served by focusing on through traffic by continuing infrastructure
projects elsewhere as well, and merging with other railroads for more
markets and the longer hauls.
>
> Don Liotta
>
>
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