Re: (rshsdepot) Communipaw redux . . .

["James R. Guthrie" <jguthrie_@_pipeline.com>]

rshsdepot
No falling out -- only that the PRR was planning to reduce the
Exchange Place operation to the minumum size it could after the long
distance trains all moved to Penn Station in 1910. The Valley, the
NYS&W, and the West Shore all were kicked out as soon as possible.

Recall that Hudson County/Jersey City were already beginning to
finance the entire operation of the city from railroad property taxes
by then, and the PRR (with the huge expense of the PT&T) did not have
the wherewithal of the Anthracite Roads (CNJ/LV/DL&W) to subsidize
Jersey City.

Cheers,
Jim

Tim wrote:

rshsdepot
The Lehigh Valley did use the CNJ terminal before WWI.  LV had
originally
used the PRR's Exchange Place terminal.  There was some sort of
falling out
and the LV switched to the CNJ.  During WWI the USRA ordered the PRR
to
again handle the LV trains - this time to New York. After the war the
LV
trains remained.
Into the 1920's there were Lehigh Valley commuter trains that came in
along
the Morris Canal Basin.  There was some sort of footbridge over the
tracks
to allow passengers to get to the CNJ station.  This lasted unil the
early
1920's.

Tim

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