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Fine in fine jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. First printing. Hardcover. xxi (including 4 maps) + 284 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrations. The story of the final years of one of America's legendary railroads, the Erie Lackawana. When the erie railroad opened in 1851, it wa sthe longest rail ratery in the country at 447 miles, running from the Hudson River to Lake Erie. The Erie pioneered numerous innovations (the use of the telegraph to control traffic as one) but it was not ideally situated (one popular saying was that the railroad ran from "Nowhere-In Particular" to "Nowhere-At-All"). The "Weary Erie" strengthened in the early 20th century but the Great Depression forced it into its fourt bankruotcy. It reorganized on the eve of World War II but by the 1950s, it felt the sting of increased competition from trucking, harsh regulation, and heavy taxation. A merger created the Erie Lackawana in 1960, came under control of the Northern & Western in 1968, had its system devestated by Hurricane Agnes in 1972, and its remains were absorbed by Conrail.
