Talk:Erie Railroad

Erie's "colorful" alias
Erie Railroad in the years after the Civil War. The Railroad became known as "the Scarlet Woman of Wall Street' because it was a plaything of men like Cornelius Vanderbilt, Daniel Drew, Jay Gould, and "Jubillee Jim Fisk who engaged in an orgy of rivalrous inside trading and bought and sold judges, city councilmen and Albany legislators like they were so many pigs in a poke.


 * (above was unsigned by User:Wk muriithi)
 * Ooh, neat. Do you have a reference for that? slambo 20:47, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it was from this washingtonpost article. They force login which has made the source abit worthless, but i can past the whole article if you can't access it. Try bugmenot first. gathima 00:17, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Gauge conversion
I think that the article ought to mention at least the date on which the last of the six foot gauge trackage was taken out of use. 86.178.190.225 (talk) 04:15, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Governor of New York in 1832
This article currently states:
 * The New York and Erie Rail Road was chartered April 24, 1832 by Governor of New York, De Witt Clinton[citation needed] to connect the Hudson River at Piermont, north of New York City, west to Lake Erie at Dunkirk.

However, according to the List of Governors of New York article the governor on April 24, 1832 was Enos T. Throop (the tenth person to serve in that office). According to the DeWitt Clinton article the former (sixth) governor died on February 11, 1828. If the charter date of April 24, 1832 is correct then the name of the Governor of New York should be changed. 67.86.74.73 (talk) 02:18, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

I agree, go ahead and do it. I think the original author(s) were confused because DeWitt Clinton was the man behind the Erie CANAL, not Railroad.

Blauwkoe (talk) 12:51, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I have made the change after consulting the Earl Pleasants' web site RR History DB to confirm that the April 24, 1832 charter date was correct. Hence I also removed the citation needed tag. 67.86.74.73 (talk) 13:48, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

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Line from Brockway to Shawmut via Crenshaw and Horton City, and line to Coal Hollow
I thought that Eire owned the line from Brockway to Shawmut. I could be wrong about this.

Also, did they own the line to Coal Hollow? I know this town was established by Northwestern Mining and Exchange, which was their captive coal subsidiary.

I checked the 1941 USGS topo and it has Eire owning from Brockway through Brockport to Coal Hollow, but PS&N owning the Shawmut/Horton/Drummond line. 2601:5C4:4301:217C:E1FD:E805:F2A9:EB2 (talk) 02:48, 6 May 2020 (UTC) Mike Shelgia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:5C4:4301:217C:E1FD:E805:F2A9:EB2 (talk) 00:43, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Ambassador of Goodwill name SMILEY
The Erie Railroad had ambassador of goodwill name SMILEY it not THE "the smiling yellow face" AKA "Smiley" however the is a smiling face (see http://elmags.railfan.net/ERIE_Dec1948.pdf and http://cs.trains.com/ctr/f/3/p/256495/2870668.aspx) Bayoustarwatch (talk) 21:43, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Lease of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad 1868-1880
Summary states the merger with the Atlantic extended the Erie to Chicago but two issues with this statement. 1) the Atlantic only reached Dayton, OH 2) the December 1868 agreement between Jay Gould (Erie) and James McHenry (Atlantic) was "a 12-year lease of the Atlantic. The [Atlantic] property was then in receivership and to withdraw it from court jurisdiction required $1,600,000. The Erie advanced this amount on the annual rental account, and the receivership was lifted." (Grodinsky, 1957) 207.153.28.57 (talk) 04:37, 18 November 2023 (UTC)