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From: tommy meehan tmeehan0421 AT gmail DOT com
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 10:49:00 -0500
Subject: Erie in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN 1851
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I was looking at the 1850 issues of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN available online
through HathiTrust Digital Library. The volume is combined with 1851 and I
found two interesting articles about the New York & Erie, as it was then
named, on the front page of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN's March 1, 1851 issue.
I converted both stories to jpegs and am attaching them to this email.

The first had to do with the road's construction progress, with the news
the line had just over 400 route-miles of track in service and expected to
be completed to its western terminal, Dunkirk NY on Lake Erie, by May 1851.
The road did open that May, with a formal ceremony held in Dunkirk on May
19th.

The second is a short article reporting that an agreement between the
Paterson roads (Paterson & Hudson River and Paterson & Ramapo) and New York
& Erie had gone into effect the previous week. Under the agreement, Erie
riders from/to west of Suffern NY could transfer to Paterson & Ramapo
trains at Suffern and be transported from/to Jersey City where ferry
service was available to Duane Street in lower Manhattan. The article notes
this created some controversy in Rockland County NY as it would take
traffic away from Erie's existing Rockland County terminal at Piermont.
Piermont is about twenty miles north of New York City on the Hudson River
and NY&E passengers transferred there to riverboats to reach the city. The
new connection did take a lot of passenger traffic away from Piermont as it
reduced travel time by several hours.

The following year, Erie leased the Paterson & Ramapo and Paterson & Hudson
River and combined them into what became the New York Division main line
via Paterson.

tommy meehan


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