For all the guys on the List........
Some fotos show 'The way it used to be' & these 2 are from my Christmas
cards.
!. yr. 2000 - I'd ben called for BH-4 (I think) anyway a straight shot across
the cutoff & into Hoboken in the afternoon of a COLD November in 1962. Plenty
of time for a great meal at Shaeffers across the street from Hoboken
terminal. Finally, back to the trainshed with a cold wind off the Hudson
river, but a warm deadhead ride to Scranton and coffee & muffins in the diner
on #5. Notice - NOBODY lingering on the platform today.
2. yr.2001 - A cold day in the Binghamton station and business car #3of the
Erie-Lackawanna sits - like Scrooge - 'silent and solitary as an oyster' at
the bumpingblock of what were the 'sleeper tracks' at the East end of the
station. In the Glory Days of the Lackawanna, these tracks held the sleepers
& diners to be cut into the mainline trains as well as the Syracuse passenger
trains. They 're cut off from the mainline now & the station sees no more
passenger trains, but the car is preserved at Steamtown in Scranton.
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