Talk:New York Central Railroad

message: I'm going to edit this page to reflect the fact that in the 1954 proxy fight for the New York Central System the Vanderbilts had ver little stock. This will be clear when I write a very detailed history on the subject. At the outset of the fight, W.H. Vanderbilt had 1,000 shares and H. S. Vanderbilt had 10,000 shares. This is out of a total of 6.4 million shares (Time magazine, Feb 22, 1954. See: www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,860503,00.html). The very end of the article has a footnote you should read). H. S Vanderbuilt increased his holdings to 60,000 shares for the proxy fight, and W. H. Vanderbilt to 2,000 shares ("Robert R Young, Populist of Wall Street", Joseph Yorkin, Harper and Row Publishers, 1969, page 164), but this is still a tiny fraction of shares outstanding.
Wm 19:36, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
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thread_title:  1954 proxy fight edits 

message: It looks like Metro North inherited NYC's commuter rail lines in Westchester County, NY.  Is this correct?  Did other commuter rail lines end up with other carriers? --Badger151 (talk) 13:43, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did Metro North inherit some of NYC's operations? 

message: At the top of this article is the famous elliptical black-and-white New York Central System logo that was known to tens of millions in the 20th century.
Where's treatment of that entity in the article, and naming when it was created? Instead, it is mentioned only once, unreferenced.
For that matter, I don't understand the map at top. The logo's name disagrees with the map's heading. To which entity does the map refer?
After these problems are fixed, I also suggest you remove all instances of the phrase 'New York Central system [sic]'. Isn't lowercase 'system' the one word you wouldn't want to use to name an entity whose name ends with that word capitalized? I mean, when talking about the Caribbean, would you say 'Dominican republic'? Oh sure, you could. But why not be concise?
Worse, at present you introduce profound confusion into which entity you're talking about. By saying 'system', are you referring to the railroad generically with *whatever name it had at the time*, or are you referring only to those years when the railroad was styled 'New York Central System'? For example, before Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II, do you say, "In 1941, [Q|q]ueen Elizabeth traveled to ..."?
I came to this Wikipedia entry for the reason many come to Wikipedia--not to read a linear history of the NYCRR. Rather, I'm writing an article and I simply need to know by what name I must call this railroad in any given decade.
This article at present fails to provide that information.
o o o
While we're at it, there should be one or more tables about this most important of U.S. railroads. As it is, all information in this--otherwise excellent--article is deeply embedded in long paragraphs.
You've already got a map or two. So let's see a schematic, a timeline--or better yet an evolutionary tree, as for Homo sapiens, of the constituent railroads and mergers.
Granted, it'll take some kind of graphics genius to do that--19th century U.S. railroads were like the early universe, an inchoate babble of gaseous mergers and re-formations.
Anyone?
--Jim Luedke.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimlue (talk • contribs) 23:42, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  New York Central System not even in article 

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message: 10 years after my pesky entry (above), the article is still incomplete.
You have a section titled, 'The Vanderbilt years, 1877–1954', but the only Vanderbilt named in the entire article is the Commodore, who died in 1877.
Name at least the major Vanderbilts.  Who was president after the Commodore?  And after that?  And after that?  I mean, they were only the wealthiest men in the country, for Pete's sake.
You do name the major players of 1954 and beyond.  But name or list all the presidents of the New York Central.
Cordially,
Jimlue (talk) 23:23, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Presidents