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Posted by ntrainride on Sat Feb 25 08:55:15 2017 drastic reductions!imagine the turmoil if something like this happened nowadays. if, say, a dozen interstates were closed. hooo boy. Found on Brooklyn Public Library powered by Newspapers.com |
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Posted by SLRT on Sat Feb 25 11:12:59 2017, in response to more trains come off!, posted by ntrainride on Sat Feb 25 08:55:15 2017. And this was after the war ended. Coal shortages also threatened elevated and subway service at various times because power houses were coal fired. |
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Posted by Alan Follett on Sat Feb 25 12:19:02 2017, in response to Re: more trains come off!, posted by SLRT on Sat Feb 25 11:12:59 2017. The immediate cause of the 1946 coal shortage was a United Mine Workers strike, which lasted, with some interruptions, from April 1 to November 21 of that year.Alan Follett Hercules, CA |
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Posted by ntrainride on Sat Feb 25 22:33:32 2017, in response to Re: more trains come off!, posted by SLRT on Sat Feb 25 11:12:59 2017. we had a coal stove to heat the house my father built when my family moved out to central islip. still remember our coal bin...getting up early to shovel coal into the furnice. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Sat Feb 25 23:37:48 2017, in response to Re: more trains come off!, posted by ntrainride on Sat Feb 25 22:33:32 2017. how long ago was this?the house my Dad grew up in also had a coal bin in the rear of the basement, he was born in 1920 and remembered coal deliveries. |
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Posted by ntrainride on Sun Feb 26 01:13:55 2017, in response to Re: more trains come off!, posted by Express Rider on Sat Feb 25 23:37:48 2017. we moved from beach 100th st. in rockaway beach to central islip in 1961. mom, pop and us seven kids (they two more sons). pop built the house, and we started heating it by coal. |
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Posted by SLRT on Sun Feb 26 10:35:38 2017, in response to Re: more trains come off!, posted by Express Rider on Sat Feb 25 23:37:48 2017. In the '50s most of the homes in Flatbush switched to oil,. Which was cheap then and less work than coal, but lots of businesses still used coal and I liked watching the coal rumble down the chutes to the basement. |
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Posted by Alan Follett on Sun Feb 26 10:38:19 2017, in response to Re: more trains come off!, posted by Express Rider on Sat Feb 25 23:37:48 2017. As a reference point, CTA's last freight customer, Lill Coal Company, operated until at least April 30, 1973, when CTA delivered its last train of hoppers to them. I believe this was the last coal yard in Chicago.Alan Follett Hercules, CA |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sun Feb 26 12:19:15 2017, in response to more trains come off!, posted by ntrainride on Sat Feb 25 08:55:15 2017. To think they cancelled 7 trains to/from Pittsburgh. I live now in the Pittsburgh area & once in awhile take the train to NYC. One train (very crowded most times) a day just don't get it done. There was talk of someday another Pittsburgh-Harrisburg train where you could connect with a "Keystone" to get to Philia. & NYC. If thats all you got, thats what I'll take. But The talk went nowhere, blaming NS/CSX for not allowing it(no room), which I'm not buying for a minute. If its a $$$ funding issue, they should be able to syphon off a few bucks from the highway robbery PA turnpike tolls to help with financing. After all, they raise the tolls every year, some of that $$$ should be earmarked for better rail service. But, realistically, its just wishful thinking.Sorry for the rant. Usually not my style. |
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