Posted by NY 986 on August 29, 2016 at 15:44:46 from (184.53.50.82):
JD Seller's Sunday flooding thread had me thinking about Hurricane Agnes for the last day. I did some reading online and learned something I had not thought about before. Yesterday, I mentioned that storm's impact on agriculture in one New York county. Having gone to college down to Alfred during the 1980's put me in contact with people who were affected directly. What I never gave thought to was that Agnes wiped out quite a number of miles of railroad track and stream crossings. Railroads were already struggling due to competition from the fairly new at the time federal highway system and the fairly new St Lawrence Seaway. Hurricane Agnes delivered the death blow to the Penn Central Railroad and the Erie Lackawanna railroad as it was too costly to rebuild lines for the revenue they contributed. Penn Central's failure meant the local rail line more or less sitting unused for a number of years until the Finger Lakes Railway was founded during the mid 1990's. I know somebody's son who works for that line and who know's that if things had turned out differently the local opportunity may have never come to be. One storm that created loss for some and employment (indirectly) for others.
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