by Jedijk88
This is all well and good but I have to wonder how their business compares with what the New Haven handled in and out of Holyoke in the 60's, In the 60's we had NY-2 and YN-1 which were symbol freight jobs between Cedar Hill and Holyoke which also worked New Britain and/or Plainville and always Westfield. They would go in to Holyoke with anywhere from 30 to 60 or more cars a day. We had a six day yard job (later reduced to five days) which did the industrial work and there was a lot of it. The last job for the day was to make up YN-1 and if YN-1 did not have enough power to push it up the hill out of Holyoke to Ashley Pond. BACK IN THE DAYS.
Noel Weaver