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Some Episodes in New England Railroad Consolidation1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

George P. Baker Jr.
George P. Baker Jr.
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Harvard University
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Extract

The combination of some 200 small railroads in New England into the present few systems has involved so many interesting episodes that to describe them all would take a very long time. I shall limit myself therefore to describing a few typical series of events which led to consolidations in New England. The first two episodes deal with the incorporation of branch lines within the larger systems of from 60 to 80 years ago; the third episode deals with the attempted and in part successful building up of a through line from Boston to New York and to the Hudson River above New York.

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Oration
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Business History Review , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , September 1936 , pp. 58 - 65
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1936

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1 This article presents the second of the addresses given at the Annual Meeting of the Society on April 22, 1936. The first, “Reminiscences of Some Contributions Towards Modernizing Business Practices,” by F. Richmond Fletcher, was printed in the June issue of the Bulletin (vol. x, no. 3). The present article was presented extemporaneously at the meeting by Dr. Baker.