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The New Haven owned thousands of boxcars, and while the number fluctuated, the aggregate asset amounted to $18,403,304. The trustees in various moves to fund other projects, identified freight cars that were no longer serviceable or of use to the railroad and sold them off. Several series of boxcars had been sold early in the bankruptcy, and those that were left expected to earn revenue. Unfortunately, many of these remained idle as business declined and piggyback business improved. We are at the Pelham Bay drawbridge witnessing two EF-4s with train GB-2 at SS14 (signal station) in November 1966. (Gerald H. Landau Collection)

Photograph from New Haven In Color Vol. 3: Into the Abyss, The Bankruptcy Years 1961-1968.

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