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Re: Tuscarora Almanac - November 22, 1967 - The Book of Last Runs |
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Posted by Larry,RedbirdR33 on Sat Nov 22 14:03:28 2014, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac - November 22, 1967 - The Book of Last Runs, posted by 3-9 on Sat Nov 22 10:20:13 2014. Why did ferry boats then last so much longer than the ones we have now?The Hudson River railroad ferries served two separate markets. The first was of course the passengers who rode their trains. The second was people and vehicles that simply wanted to get from one side of the river to the other. When the Holland Tunnel opened in 1927 it began to drain that traffic off the boats. By the time the boats would have been due for replacement, say sometime in the early 1950's the railroads wanted out of the passenger business (ferry as well as trains). There simply wasn't any money in the budget to buy new boats so they kept the old ones in service. BTW Three of the ferryboats still operating today are at or over the fifty year mark: Lt.Samuel S.Coursen - 58 Micheal Cosgrove - 53 John F.Kennedy - 49 Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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