RE: (erielack) Number 1's last run, tonight

["Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>]

Can anyone with a tape recorder get the whistle salute? That will sure be
stirring!

	- Paul


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MDelvec952_@_aol.com [mailto:MDelvec952@aol.com] 
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 12:53 PM
> To: Tri-StateChapter_@_yahoogroups.com; 
> railroad_@_cunyvm.cuny.edu; all_aboard@yahoogroups.com; 
> erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: (erielack) Number 1's last run, tonight
> 
> 
> In a message dated 1/4/02 9:12:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> gkazin_@_yahoo.com 
> writes:
> 
> > NJ Transit train No. 429 will arrive in Gladstone from Hoboken at 
> > about  6:30 p.m. today.  For Bill Davidson, 74, the train's 
> engineer, 
> > it  literally will be his last stop.
> 
> Actually, "Number 1's" last run will be tonight, Friday, on 
> 429, leaving 
> Hoboken at 5:00 p.m., arriving at 6:21 p.m. at Gladstone.
> 
> I'm hoping for a dramatic whistle salute in Hoboken.
> 
> This man marks the end of the Lackawanna steam era, the last 
> of the steam 
> engineers still to be working.
> 
> Thanks, Bill Davidson, for such a storied career and 
> admirable work ethic.
> 
>                                    ....Mike
> 

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