Word: wheelspur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pennsy paid the L.I. only 35? a ton, collected as much as $1.10 from shippers; the Pennsy and the N.Y., N.H. & H. used some eleven miles of Long Island tracks, paid only half of what the fee should have been; the Pennsy leased the Long Island's Wheelspur Yard for a piddling $13,000 in 1948, forced the L.I. to deadhead its own cars to less accessible yards at a cost of $370,000 a year. "Complete misunderstanding of the facts," snapped the Pennsy. When the L.I. went into bankruptcy Pennsy filed claims of close to $53 million...
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