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While familiarity with railroading is a plus, it is not necessary for top manger. As long as that business degree person knows how to find, hire and promote people with the right railroad knowledge, they will do fine. The current situation is due primarily to hiring and promotions being decided in ...

At the end of the day Someone is going to settle with these injured people. And rightfully so.

Remember, the EL went bankrupt in 1973? So the Trustees started divesting assets.
The EL was in talks to be acquired by the C&O/B&O -at least the Souther Tier. At the last moment they were included in the Conrail System.
Believe the Spirit of Youngstown conveyed over to CSX in 1999.

Hard to say looking at a single source. Schedules changed over the years. The lackawanna route was 40 miles shorter, but many grades. Believe the NYC owned enough Lackawanna stock that they were able to populate the Board of Directors with 3 Directors. Hence, there was no way the Lack was going to b...

Service to Washington Ave was supported from the Delaware Ave side during CR. Traffic moved into Greenwich yd., then Tidewater yd, finally to a support yd near Delaware and Washington. Domino Sugar (or was it Jack Frost lol) was the big industry at the small yd. The last holdout on Washington was S....