Re: Tracing the New York & Manhattan Beach
| May 07, 2014 09:30PM |
philip.marshall Wrote:
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> South Park Wrote:
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> > The Brookfield Glass Co. operated the Bushwick
> > Glass Works right in this area from 1847 ? to
> > 1912, producing millions of the early telegraph
> > insulators used on railways across the nation.
> > The Rio Grande was a Brookfield buyer from the
> > beginning. Here is a pole full of CD 126 WU
> > Standards that they favored in the late 1870's
> and
> > 80's in the Royal Gorge. Made right there in
> > Bushwick !
>
> Because everything has to come back to the D&RGW,
> right SP?
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I would relate it to the South Park line, but they favored Hemingray, who had their glass plant in Covington, KY., so it was D&RG by default. My apologies.
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> South Park Wrote:
> ==================================================
> =====
> > The Brookfield Glass Co. operated the Bushwick
> > Glass Works right in this area from 1847 ? to
> > 1912, producing millions of the early telegraph
> > insulators used on railways across the nation.
> > The Rio Grande was a Brookfield buyer from the
> > beginning. Here is a pole full of CD 126 WU
> > Standards that they favored in the late 1870's
> and
> > 80's in the Royal Gorge. Made right there in
> > Bushwick !
>
> Because everything has to come back to the D&RGW,
> right SP?
===================================================
I would relate it to the South Park line, but they favored Hemingray, who had their glass plant in Covington, KY., so it was D&RG by default. My apologies.
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