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Populist_Prole

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6. I am as well. another interesting factoid is how long since the last rail freight was as well

Reply to Posteritatis (Reply #4)

Sun Nov 3, 2013, 01:18 PM

Nov 2013

While rail freight ( not car floats ) directly into manhattan ended in 1980, it was but a trickle by then from a steady decline from the 1950's due to competition from trucks/highways.

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