Re: (erielack) Erie & B & O

["J. Henry Priebe Jr." <root_@_net.bluemoon.net>]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Hoboken wrote:

> My Erie Railroad map of the early 1950's shows that the Dayton Branch 
> continuing on south and then west to Indianapolis, via trackage rights 
> over the B & O.  It also shows the Bradford Division continuing on south 
> via trackage rights over the B & O.  Curiously, this allowed the Erie to 
> call its Indianapolis office an "on-line" office.
> 
> My question is whether the Erie had a unique relationship with the B & O 
> to allow the Erie to incorporate these two sections of B & O line into 
> its own system.  The second question is whether there were any other 
> sections of B & O track over which the Erie had trackage rights.  Third, 
> did the Erie have this kind of relationship with any other railroad?

Didn't the Erie and B&O have a joint agreement on the Bradford Branch near
Mt. Jewett in PA?

Henry

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