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McGinnis Rises to Rocky Peak of New Haven Rail
Patrick B. McGinnis, new president of the New York New Haven Hartford railroad, rose from a Palmyra foreman’s son to a multibillion-dollar rail executive. Born poor, he funded college at St Lawrence, studied railroad securities, and accelerated through Lehman Brothers to lead a modernizing push with high speed trains and a $20 million signaling system.
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