I don't have the calendar, so I don't know the time frame. On a Sunday some time in the late 1980's, a charter trip ran out the Erie side to Warwick and Middletown, NY. During the trip, the consist was wyed at Campbell Hall. On the return, it struck a mounted truck tire between the rails. The engineer had seen it and dumped the air, so damage was minor - the engine's plow took most of the damage. Later, NJT wanted to sue the organizing group for damage to the train. It was pointed out that if the charter hadn't run, the tire would have been struck by the first Main Line train on Monday. That train would have been led by a cab car; at that time the cab card did not have plows. The damage would have been much more serious and a derailment would have been possible. NJT dropped the idea of suing the trip organizers and began running the first train of the day with a locomotive leading - all year round. ===== Gary R. Kazin DL&W Milepost R35.7 Rockaway, New Jersey http://www.geocities.com/gkazin/index.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ ------------------------------
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