SUSQUEHANNA: New York, Susquehanna & Western (Out of Print, LAST NEW BOOK)

Description: Susquehanna New York, Susquehanna & Western by John Krause and Ed Crist This is an unopened BRAND NEW BOOK (not used). We handle all books with white gloves (no fingerprints on your book). A Railroad Bookmark is included with each book. Book is wrapped and mailed in a top-quality, durable container. We try hard to be the NUMBER 1 Railroad Book Dealer on ebay with 1,800+ titles. Order before 3:00 pm (ET) for same-day postal mailing. Note: This book is Out of Print and no longer available from publisher/distributor. This ebay seller has acquired a few NEW books. LAST FEW NEW BOOKS Today's New York, Susquehanna & Western has its roots in a tidewater-to-Great Lakes railroad plan dating to the 1860s. The New Jersey Midland Railway was formed in 1870 as the merger of two existing projects looking to connect industrial Patterson, New Jersey, with the anthracite fields of eastern Pennsylvania. After a series of reorganizations and mergers, the New York, Susquehanna & Western emerged in 1882. Through stock purchases, the NYS&W came under control of the Erie Railroad in 1898, and continued to be operated as a subsidiary until 1940. Bankruptcy came to the Susquehanna in 1937, of which it would not emerge until 1953. Due to wartime surges of traffic, the first diesels arrived in 1943. With port sideeproperty developed at Edgewater and leased to SeaTrain Corp., new revenue coming in allowed a modernization of commuter trains with new Budd coaches and Rail Diesel Cars. The economic recession of the late 1950s took their toll, and the railroad began a long decline as it retrenched to its New Jersey roots, with all western interchange partners gone and the road washed out west of Butler by 1979. The Delaware Otsego Corp. would be the Susquehanna's savior, reviving the railroad and growing the company into a top regional player in the northeastern rail scene. "Susquehanna" is a detailed look at the operation of the railroad from Little Ferry, New Jersey, all the way to Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania from 1940 right up to the end of the 1970s. This book features many rare scenes of Russian Decapods, streamlined gas-electrics, RS1s, and RDCs along with a look at neighboring roads Lehigh & New England, the Lehigh & Hudson River, and the New York, Ontario & Western. Book includes an epilogue outlining the success of DO Corp. in expanding and reinventing the Susy-Q. Softbound, 11x8.5, 98 pages, text, many photographs w/extensive captions. Visit our ebay store to view other books of interest. We sell books: Railroad, Aviation, and Modeling books of the Golden Age Era. WE PACKAGE OUR BOOKS EXTREMELY WELL SO THE BOOK WILL NOT BE DAMAGED IN THE MAIL. No one packages books better than we do.

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