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[quote user="Murphy Siding"]<p> I started a new book, <em>Erie-Lackawanna, Death of an American Railroad.</em></p><p><em> </em>In reference to Erie's line into Chicago, it says the following: ...."opened in 1883...between Marion, Ohio and Hammond, Indiana,featured "airline" qualities. It is likely that this 250-mile extention could claim to be the best-engineered ROW between Ohio and Illinois".</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>I wish the author had examined the track charts of the various lines in competition with the Erie and assessed that old claim instead of just repeating it. The insertion of the weasel word "likely" is evidence only of laziness; it's not like the track charts are secret or hard to find. Anyone actually looked at the track charts and care to proffer an opinion based on facts instead of hearsay or puffery?</p><p>S. Hadid </p>
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