RE: (erielack) The Ray Scott Collection: Interesting Views At Suf fern

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

I'll have to agree with Walter, I finally got around to looking at them, and these are great! I think people pictures are terrific (and sorely overlooked by many), and the shots of the movable rails on WR is great!!!

	- Paul



> -----Original Message-----
> jIM,
> 
> i JUST WANTED TO THANK U FOR THE GREAT PIX AT sUFFERN & 
> WR.........I thought 
> of the many times I'd slept in the Stilwells at Suffern. 
> Bitter cold usually 
> & we'd cou[ple up thje old RS3s steam for the nite, then take 
> the backs off 
> the seats & make a bed of them. No bedding of course. Just 
> get up at 5am the 
> next day & take the traiin out to Hoboken. Bad thing about 
> Suffern..........no place to eat there, so until u got to Hoboken (& 
> Schaeffers,) no dinner or  breakfast. There was a bar near 
> the tracks, but 
> no food (this was 1962-63 or so). WR sticks iin my memory 
> acct of following 
> another train & the oldhead engineer refused to leave until I 
> went out & 
> dumped the drinking water can on a smoldering tie where there 
> was a long 
> burned-out fusee. This made us late to Hoboken, but the 
> officials overlooked 
> it. These are GREAT fotos & I'm glad someone made them available.
> 
> Regards,
> Walter E. Smith

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