Re: (erielack) Re: the West Shore

[Peter Heimbach <plh5_@_charter.net>]

The best part of this is the story of how J.P. Morgan got them all on 
his yacht on the Hudson River  and would not let them off until they 
agreed to stop this very costly competition between the two RR's.

Philip Martin wrote:

>Concerning the West Shore RR, Bob Gillis writes:   It was built by the
>Gould interests to compete with the NYC.   To add my hazy two cents: what
>everybody on the list probably already knows, the New York Central was
>building a railroad through the mountains of Pennsylvania, to give the PRR
>competition there; so the Pennsy got behind the West Shore project, to put
>a little pressure on the NYC.  Then the compromise:  the NYC got the West
>Shore, and the state of Pennsylvania got the graded line through the
>mountains for its PA Turnpike.
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