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Posted by kp5308 on Sat Sep 29 15:39:22 2012, in response to Re: Topic For Tuesday Railbus, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Sep 29 14:21:23 2012. Check out this exchange between the Susie-Q & the New York Ontario & Western:"...Mr Norton (NYSW ?) reported that he had spent the weekend, from September 1 to September 5, (1939) with Mr. Lyford, Trustee of the Ontario (at the O&W's Livingston Manor retreat ?), and that various projects had been discussed, including the following: 1. Mr. Lyford was considering the purchase of a motorcar similar to those designed for the Susquehanna, but with mail and express compartments, which he proposed to use instead of the present steam equipment to cover his mail and express and incidental passenger service from Weehawken, N.J to Walton, N.Y., during the winter months. The Susquehanna could use this car during the summer months to carry mail and express to Sussex, now handled on trains 907 and 930. For no more in expense than these two steam trains cost, the Susquehanna could also test the possibilities of summer passenger traffic in the Sussex area by running this car in from Sussex so that passengers could reach New York at about 8:30 in the morning, returning to Sussex with mail and express, return to Hawthorne for servicing and leave New York with passengers about 5:30 in the evening. (The NYS&W was thinking of a media campaign promoting "Susquehannaland" home sites and home sales to potential commuters) Now THAT would have been quite the paint scheme to see on one of those cars :o) |
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