DELAWARE & HUDSON RAILROAD, D&H, ADIRONDACK PATTERN CHINA SAUCER

Description

New, unused Adirondack pattern saucer made by Syracuse China in 1976 according to the date codes included by Richard Luckin in his book
Dining on Rails.
Smaller pieces only had the blue pinstripe and none of the pieces were backstamped. These saucers were in s Syracuse China carton that I recently acquired.
Carefully shipped via USPS with tracking information.
According to Wikipedia, Delaware and Hudson Railway (1968–1988)
In 1964, Norfolk & Western wanted to acquire the Wabash and Nickel Plate Road railroads. The ICC at the time informed it that, in return for its approval, it would also have to acquire the
Erie Lackawanna
and D&H. The D&H company was reorganized as the
Delaware and Hudson Railway
, and both roads were placed into Dereco, a holding company
owned by
the Norfolk and Wester Railway
. After New York and Pennsylvania were hit by
Hurricane Agnes
in 1972, which destroyed part of the EL main line west of Binghamton, and following the bankruptcy of numerous northeastern U.S. railroads in the 1970s, including D&H and E-L, N&W lost control of Dereco stock. After several merger plans fell through, EL petitioned for and was included in the formation of the federal government's nascent
Conrail. While D&H was technically still owned by N&W, it was given financial support and told to "sink or swim" as an independent railroad again. The D&H was left out of Conrail to maintain a semblance of competition in the Northeast. While the success of this move has often been discredited, since the D&H was simply too small to compete with all of the markets served by Conrail, in fact the railroad doubled in size by being granted trackage rights over Conrail reaching Newark, Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Washington, DC. The remainder of the Penn Division from Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, to Nineveh, New York, was abandoned after the Belden Hill tunnel, northeast of Binghamton, was enlarged in 1986.