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ALTHOUGH NO CITY SLICER, TRAFFICMAN CULBREATH HAS RESISTED BUYING THE BRIDGE

New York Outpost
Big city office handles sales and service for the Eastern territory

RAILROADS, even big ones, often
get swallowed up in the immense-
ness of New York City. The New
York Central, the New Haven, the
Pennsylvania, the Long Island, the Jer-
sey Central -- these are railroads that
New Yorkers come into contact with
every day. So far as most of them are
concerned they are the most important
railroads in the world

Few New Yorkers realize that they
could look in the Manhattan telephone
directory and find local addresses and
numbers for almost every railroad in
North America. By dialing two letters
and five numbers they could talk to
a representative of a railroad serving
Louisiana, Arizona, North Dakota or
Canada.

Back in the middle twenties the
Piedmont & Northern, aware of the
importance of New York as a traffic

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