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Re: (rshsdepot) "450-Ton Locomotive at the Waldorf-Astoria"

    Yeh, I keep forgetting it was top-to-bottom and first-to-last over
there -- they could have put a big slanted "E" in place of that gorgeous
script herald, and been closer to the mark.
    Would you know if I guessed right when I wondered just why they kept
buying water-tube 4-8-2's after the first couple were shown conclusively not
to work?  I figured it was a motive power chief trying to imitate the
higher-ups.
    Did Mellen and Morgan own all those trolley lines that the NH wasted a
fortune buying?
    Steve Delibert
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From: JIMBEAR <ribear_@_cox.net>
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Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 1:17 AM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) "450-Ton Locomotive at the Waldorf-Astoria"


> Actually, Steve, in the history of the New Haven RR, McGinnis was
> a minor miscreant. Nothing could match the financial razzle-dazzle of
> the Morgan-Mellen era. Handymen and secretaries were sometimes
> presidents of multi-million dollar corporations for an afternoon. The


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