The Pittsburg & Shawmut ended up in the Dumaine family -- F.C. and "Buck" -- and, if it survives, remains there, along with a LOT of coal. Some of that coal provides the electricity for me to type this, and it comes up former Erie lines to come east to Bow, NH.
The railroad and the coal gave the Dumaines a foundation from which to try to save the New Haven and to get into the Bangor & Aroostook.
The story of those involvements and the family conflicts is worth a -- if not "THE" -- American Novel.
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M J Connor said:
Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern (note the omission of "h" in Pittsburg is deliberate) which was orginally the parent, not subsidiary of the Pittsburg & Shawmut-after 1916 the two were relatively independent of each other) and its predecessors
Also note, that this corporate separation allowed the Pittsburg & Shawmut to divert much of its northbound coal traffic from the PS&N, to the Erie. This became substantial portion of the traffic on the Erie Bradford Division (and
played a large part in dooming the PS & N to decades of receivership, and eventual abandonment).
JR
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