The Penn Central bankruptcy dragged down Northeastern railroading no matter how solvent you were... you lost money on every car switched to PC- it used to be that fees cancelled each other out- but since PC was not required to pay certain creditors during its bankruptcy proceedings, it was now absorbing the other half of all those charges. But I want to keep the conversation on the track rationalization and not on merger conditions.
I assume that EL's late entry into the planning of Conrail is what doomed most of its mainline routes into oblivion. Earlier plans had EL aligned with Chessie System, from what I recall, and there was no talk of EL in Conrail until 1975 or so. (USRA planning began in 1974, right?)
My 1978 map of Conrail shows the Poughkeepsie Bridge route intact, as a solid line over the Hudson River. I guess no one in Philly got the memo that the bridge was OOS?
What of the LV estate in New York? Did Conrail operate anything west of Sayre, or was that essentially shut down after April 1, 1976?
-otto-
I assume that EL's late entry into the planning of Conrail is what doomed most of its mainline routes into oblivion. Earlier plans had EL aligned with Chessie System, from what I recall, and there was no talk of EL in Conrail until 1975 or so. (USRA planning began in 1974, right?)
My 1978 map of Conrail shows the Poughkeepsie Bridge route intact, as a solid line over the Hudson River. I guess no one in Philly got the memo that the bridge was OOS?
What of the LV estate in New York? Did Conrail operate anything west of Sayre, or was that essentially shut down after April 1, 1976?
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