The History of Equipment Finance, Volume 4, 1845-1897: Boat Loans, Philadelphia Car & Equipment Trusts,...

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Michael J T McMillen

The History of Equipment Finance, Volume 4, 1845-1897

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Boat Loans, Philadelphia Car & Equipment Trusts, Central of New Jersey (Second Edition)

Michael J T McMillen

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River Stone Publishing Group
14 April 2026

History of the Americas; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Finance; Legal history

Series: The History of Equipment Finance

Frederick Fraley became the president of Schuylkill Navigation in 1847. He inherited the boat loan structure of 1845. That structure was originally developed in an effort to repopulate the navigation with coal boats after their near total destruction by a massive flood. Under the new financing structure, SNC borrowed money and gave it to a trust that acquired boats and railroad cars and leased them to SNC. SNC subleased the boats to boat captains.

By 1863, through five remarkably innovative iterations, Fraley transformed the boat loan trust from a collateral holder into an independent business unit. It borrowed and lent money, owned boats, cars, locomotives, and, eventually, financial assets, leased boats to captains, provided collateral for, and paid, other SNC debt, and engaged in mergers, among other activities. In addressing SNC's 1852 receivership and the boat loan structure, the Pennsylvania legislature, for the first time, defined equipment finance and its limited recourse features. From desperation, debt, and default, equipment finance was born.

In 1868 and 1869, Lehigh Coal & Navigation transformed the boat loan into the car and equipment trust, incorporating an installment payment structure it used since the 1832 cholera pandemic. The idea for the transformation was planted in the mind of Edward W. Clark, a financier that became president of Lehigh C&N in an effort to rescue the faltering company. The structure was given shape by the Philadelphia lawyer, Charles Gibbons. Did Mendes Cohen make a contribution to the new structure?

In 1871, the Central Railroad of New Jersey leased LC&N, taking control of the LC&N car and equipment trusts. The CNJ soon replicated the trusts in four new financings, acquiring thousands of rail cars as it became a leading transporter of Pennsylvania coal to New York. The trust and its documents became the Philadelphia Plan of equipment finance and survive to the present as one of the two dominant structures.

These are stories told in this volume.

By: Michael J T McMillen
Imprint: River Stone Publishing Group
Edition: 2nd ed.
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 762g
ISBN: 9781957948348
ISBN 10: 1957948345
Series: The History of Equipment Finance
Pages: 442
Publication Date: 14 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael J.T. McMillen is a partner in the international law firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, an Adjunct Professor in the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and a Lecturer in Law at the Columbia Law School. His international legal practice focuses on project, infrastructure, and equipment finance (since 1983) and Islamic finance (since 1996). Michael was awarded a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Wisconsin Law School, and a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) from the University of Wisconsin School of Business.