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Re: (erielack) No.21

Chuck & list;
         It might have been the shortest Pullman run in history, but I'll
bet any of us would pay anything to get to the Scranton station early, have
a nice dinner at Hardings (built into the retaining wall) while u gaze at
the painting of the Phoebe Snow on the back wall & hear the trains rumble
overhead. Then leave the restaurant & head up to the good old station &
board the Pullman early for a nice rest (the passenger drill would VERY
carefully put it on the train) & you'd wake up early next day in Hoboken. If
u were continuing into the city, you'd board one of the Company ferryboats
and have a great cup of coffee & donut as you watched the skyline approach.
AAHHHH, that was the life.
      Every once in a while I get my EL slide carousel out & re-live
memories of the 60s> As I said in a previous post, I'm inviting EL folks
here in Florida to the next NRHS meeting at the Cocoa public library where
the program will be on the EL presented by longtime NRHS & ELHS member Jim
Gillin who was a tkt agent for the LIRR & has many great EL fotos.
Regards to all,
Walter E. Smith
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Subject: Re: (erielack) No.21


> In looking at the DL&W schedule in my 1952 Guide, Train #21 is seems to be
> the remanent of the old milk train that ran to Binghamton, then was cut
back to
> Scranton probably to handle the mail and express traffic that was on the
milk
> train in later years.
>
> As I recall the milk train is always had a an open platform steel combine
and
> the Pullman deadheading back to Scranton for the nightly Scranton-Hoboken
> sleeper
> (reputed to be the shortest Pullman in the country).
>
> Chuck Yungkurth
> Boulder CO
>
>

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