Listers- Ditto, only I would be at BJ Tower watching the action of trains filled with passengers and war material headed for Jersey City. The view would include both the Bergen County Cut Off (as it was called in those days) and the Mainline of the Erie. The massive Pacifics on the mainline through trains and the unbelievable clutter of trains headed to the Jersey coast at Jersey City and Weehawken destined for loading into New York City. After getting on the train to New York in Rutherford NJ, we would arrive at the Jersey City Erie Terminal. There the harbor was full of warships, converted passenger liners to troop ships and many, many Liberty ships ready to be loaded and headed for Europe. Passengers would disembark the trains and thousands of people would board the Erie ferry boats to get to their jobs in New York. The malted milks my father would buy me at the old Erie Terminal were the biggest in the world and as a five year old, I was very impressed. And you ask why I love trains???? Read the above again. - -Joe Jordan Train Nut Central www.20thcenturyhobbies.com/trainnut/ At 05:46 PM 8/2/04 EDT, RJFlei_@_aol.com wrote: >List, >I would go back to 1945 in Warren, Oh. at the depot. What I'd like to see is >an Erie 2900 Pacific leaving town with a passenger train. I have heard, from >those that were there, that it was a real feast for the senses, especially the >loud crack of the exhaust echoing off the buildings when a 2900 left town. > >Rick Fleischer >Cortland, Oh. >ELHS 1426 > > ------------------------------
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