Charles Sanger Mellen
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Charles Sanger Mellen was an American railroad man whose career culminated in the presidencies of the Northern Pacific Railway and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. His goal, along with t
Charles Sanger Mellen in 1915
The New York, Ontario and Western Railway, commonly known as the O&W or NYO&W, was a regional railroad founded in 1868. The last train ran from Norwich, New York, to Middletown, New York, in 1957, aft
Charles Sanger Mellen
…in New England that extended from railroads to steamship lines and street railways. The New Haven even bought control of the chronically unprofitable New York, Ontario and Western Railway. His efforts, in particular the attempted takeover of the Boston and Maine Railroad, brought him into public contention with antitrust lawyer Louis…
A New York, Ontario and Western Railway diesel locomotive in 1947
A New York, Ontario and Western Railway passenger train at Weehawken Terminal in Weehawken, New Jersey
Engine 201 crossing Cadosia Trestle in Hancock, New York
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