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

["Paul S. Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

- -----Original Message-----
From: Henry Rosenberg <henryr.javanet_@_rcn.com>
To: Paul S. Luchter <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
Date: Friday, March 08, 2002 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: (rshsdepot) "450-Ton Locomotive at the Waldorf-Astoria"


As I see it, two things killed NYNH&HRR. 1) big hurricane - when? '56? did
major damage that they never had the capital to repair. 2) the Connecticut
Turnpike allowed trucks to rob their freight business. The irony is that
the RR had a tremendous surge of economic success from hauling building
materials - for the Turnpike. ¶ Oh, and here's the other irony. They were
pioneers in piggyback freight - but their system was the Betamax of
piggyback and they were too late converting to VHS. Henry
At 11:51 PM 3/7/02 -0500, you wrote:

>-----Original Message-----
>From: JIMBEAR <ribear_@_cox.net>
>To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net <rshsdepot@lists.railfan.net>
>Date: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:41 PM
>Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) "450-Ton Locomotive at the Waldorf-Astoria"
>
>
> >Well, Paul, the New Haven was a special case. Patrick McGinnis was
> >flamboyant (and a bit crooked -- after the NH dumped him, he went
> >to the Boston & Maine and got involved in a kick-back scheme that
> >landed him in federal prison) and given to hair-brained schemes. He
> >certainly didn't help the NH during its decline, but he didn't kill it.
He
> >just speeded up the end. The NH went into its final brush with bank-
> >ruptcy in 1961, and was forced on the Penn Central in 1968. The NH's
> >biggest problem was that far more than any other railroad, it relied on
> >passenger, express, and mail business to bring in revenue (in terms of
> >passenger miles, the NH was No. 3 in the US, right behind the NYC,
> >and PRR - amazing when you consider that its main line was only 229
> >miles from NYC to Boston).  The loss of revenue from the decline in
> >passenger traffic, the decline in express business,  and the transfer of
> >the US Mail service to the airlines doomed the NH. Even the very best
> >management team would probably not have been able to save it.
> >
> >Jim.
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Paul S. Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
> >To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
> >Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:02 PM
> >Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) "450-Ton Locomotive at the Waldorf-Astoria"
> >
> >
> >> I guess this is why this railroad went bottom up, was this typical of
>other
> >> railroads in the 50s?
> >
> >
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> >


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