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Just one more bit of info from the 1947 article: "Wilguslaid down his plan for the present day GST on the twenty-second of December 1902 ". :By the Tenth of January,1903 William J Wilgus was made VP of the Central Hudson RR which was in charge of the construction. Deep in the tunnel 1/22/1902 a New haven Commuter train was in the color (standing stock still in front of a red light) thus the color. In back of heron the same track a Central Hudson train was moving through the smoke by dead reckoning. Seventeen people dead and the hue and cry that banned all steam locomotives from Manhattan on all tracks used for passenger service by 1910 meant that electrification of passenger service had to be done in 8 years. Up went the new GST
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