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From: "J DOT Henry Priebe Jr DOT " root AT bluemoon DOT net
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:20:33 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: (erielack) William White and Piggyback (NYC)
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Here are the PDFs as jpeg image files since the list won't accept PDFs.

Henry

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On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, tommy meehan wrote:

>
> Paul wrote:
> > Also, it wasn't quite as far along as
> > "about to launch".
>
> The cars were being purchased from Rail-Trailer, 75-foot flats
> able to carry two trailers. Central said they would use side
> loaders and contract with motor carriers. (Perlman didn't like
> that idea, either.)
>
> When White announced the plan in January 1954 he said
> the service would begin by linking New York (Weehawken)-
> Cleveland-Chicago and Detroit-Chicago.
>
> The first flats were delivered in June and put on display at
> Weehawken. In one of his first official acts, Alfred Perlman
> showed one of the cars to newsmen and said the service
> would begin "late this summer."
>
> But of course it never happened.
>
> I'm attaching a pdf of the June 17, 1954 article from the
> *New York Times*. It has a photo and while you can't see
> much of the flatcar, it doesn't seem especially revolutionary.
>
> Btw, the day before the ICC had blocked a plan by six Eastern
> and Midwestern railroads (Erie, DL&W, PRR, B&O, NKP and
> Wabash) to operate their own piggyback services by
> suspending the tariffs. The Commission took this action after
> getting complaints from the truckers. As you can imagine
> the railroads really let out a howl over that!
>
> I'm attaching that article too since the photo accompanying
> it shows an Erie trailer being loaded at Hammond Ind.
>
> If the PDFs don't come through, email me off list and I will
> gladly send one to anyone who wants one.
>
>
> tommy meehan
>
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