>The Erie and the Susquehanna maintained their own tracks and dispatched all trains where the L&NE had trackage rights on them. That is the >common way of handling those arrangements. Payment formulas vary, and I don't know if L&NE paid a percentage of expenses, a per-car or per-train >charge, or some other formula. Those trackage rights agreements often work very well, especially on a single track railroad that can easily handle the >traffic. Expenses are shared, and property taxes, especially in New York and New Jersey, were only paid on one railroad line rather than two. IIRC, the trackage rights on the NYS&W were a flat $90,000 a year, and some special provisions regarding rate divisions on interchanbge at Hainesburg Jct. toward the end. There were many different deals on this over the years; what it was worth to LC&N had as much to do with avoiding handing cash over to the CNJ in the L&S deal as anything -- although they seem to have made up their differences around 1926, with a more conventional deal in place for a long time. It should be remembered that more LCN anthracite went by water to New England until the mid 1930s anyway. Cheers, Jim Guthrie ELHS #1296 The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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