> - Page 236 - Left column, lines 30-33: The Lehigh & Hudson and > Lehigh & New England did not cross the Hudson River; they didn't > even reach it. Both railroads ended at Maybrook, NY, at a yard True but perhaps a tad misleading.. While it is true that the L&NE did not reach the Poughkeepsie Bridge, it is not true that the railroad we know as the L&NE did not reach the bridge. When the Reading's A.A.McLeod put together the Philadelphia and Reading, CNJ, LV, Pennsylvania Poughkeepsie and Boston (later the L&NE), the Central New England and Western and the Boston and Maine into one system, certainly there was a single route across the bridge. Of course, when it all collapsed a short time later (helping precipitate the depression of 1893-94), the PP&B was split into two operating sections -- the Lehigh Valley ran west of Hainesburg Junction and the NYS&W operated east of Swartswood Junction, and there were through trains operated over the route to New England -- with the NYS&W handling Hainesburg to Campbell Hall. Cheers, Jim The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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