{"id":5630,"date":"2015-05-26T12:11:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T12:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=5630"},"modified":"2015-06-16T16:33:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T16:33:27","slug":"new-york-times-letter-to-the-editor-by-j-w-swanberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/05\/26\/new-york-times-letter-to-the-editor-by-j-w-swanberg\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times letter to the editor, by J. W. Swanberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We enjoyed reading a May 23 letter to the editor, &#8220;<a title=\"History and Safety on the Railroads\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/23\/opinion\/history-and-safety-on-the-railroad.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">History and Safety on the Railroad<\/a>,&#8221; in the New York Times by our railroad friend, supporter and donor J.W. (Jack) Swanberg, where he explains that historically the railroads in the United States have had to build their own stations and right-of-way without any kind of public support, unlike public roads and the airline industry. \u00a0Jack certainly writes from his own personal knowledge of railroad history, as the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/New-Haven-Power-1838-1968-Electric\/dp\/0944513093\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1432642242&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=new+haven+power\" target=\"_blank\">New Haven Power<\/a>, a history of the New York, New Haven &amp; Hartford Railroad&#8217;s engines and other motive power, and numerous articles in railroad magazines on a myriad of railroad history topics.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1750\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/05\/1998-0175_box6-folder94.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1750\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1750\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/05\/1998-0175_box6-folder94-1024x666.jpg\" alt=\"1881, Housatonic Railroad locomotive and crew\" width=\"584\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/05\/1998-0175_box6-folder94-1024x666.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/05\/1998-0175_box6-folder94-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/05\/1998-0175_box6-folder94-460x300.jpg 460w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/05\/1998-0175_box6-folder94.jpg 1530w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1881, Housatonic Railroad locomotive and crew<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We enjoyed reading a May 23 letter to the editor, &#8220;History and Safety on the Railroad,&#8221; in the New York Times by our railroad friend, supporter and donor J.W. (Jack) Swanberg, where he explains that historically the railroads in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/05\/26\/new-york-times-letter-to-the-editor-by-j-w-swanberg\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253],"tags":[68,264],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-1sO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5631,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630\/revisions\/5631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}