Re: (rshsdepot) Poughkeepsie RR Bridge

[CoolGuy127_@_aol.com]

In a message dated 12/19/2007 2:12:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
luckyshow_@_mindspring.com writes:

where  did this 90% go?
    The reference is presumably to the following quote  from the source cited:



"The commissioner told Langdon that 90 per cent of all Lehigh and Hudson  
River Railway traffic uses the bridge."
 
    The quote came from an article that talked about  the fire on the bridge 
in 1974.  The Lehigh and Hudson River Railway filed  for bankruptcy in 1972 
and was merged into Conrail in 1976.  By 1972, Penn  Central had diverted most 
of the traffic which formerly crossed the Hudson on  the Poughkeepsie Bridge 
onto its bridge in Albany, and it kept the Poughkeepsie  Bridge open to rail 
traffic only because it was forced to by the Interstate  Commerce Commission.  
Once the bridge caught on fire, all traffic was  diverted to the Albany bridge, 
and this sealed the doom of the Lehigh and Hudson  River Railway.
 
            Daniel  Chazin
            Teaneck,  NJ



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