Re: (erielack) Group discusses past and future of Lackawanna Cutoff

[donald kern <doubletrack_@_comcast.net>]

Many dont do any research and only write what theyre told !  this sound 
like one of those type

STEVEZ10_@_aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 10/19/2005 2:42:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>root_@_net.bluemoon.net writes:
>Group discusses past and future of Lackawanna Cutoff
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>Wednesday, October 19, 2005
>By JACLYN KOSAKOWSKI 
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>Herald Staff Writer 
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>Many have mixed feelings about putting the line back in operation. While some 
>residents hope the railroad is rebuilt, others fear a lack of passenger 
>interest will lead it to become a freight-only line. 
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>Not true, the purpose for rebuilding it is for passenger trains traveling 
>from Scranton to Hoboken..Lots of people who live in the Poconos will commute to 
>their jobs in and around the Morristown area...
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>Built between 1909 and 1912, the Lackawanna Cutoff stopped at Blairstown, 
>Johnsonburg and Greendell. It cut right through the mountains and created a 
>straighter path than the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, or DL&W lines. 
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>More wrong facts that need to be changed...The Cutoff openend in 1911... I 
>was still being built in 1909...
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>"We were all at the station when the last train went through," Esenlohr said 
>about the last Phoebe Snow train in 1970. "We put pennies on the track." 
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>This was the Lake Cities train that ended in 1970.....The Phoebe Snow ended 
>in 1966..
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>Esenlohr and Swinson believe that if the government were to rebuild the line, 
>there would not be enough interest to make it a passenger train. Most of the 
>people who would get on here work around Morristown and once they get there, 
>they have no transportation to get to their businesses, Esenlor said. 
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>"Its purpose would be to take trucks off the highway," she said. 
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>Its purpose is NOT to take trucks off the highways!! The purpose is for 
>people to stop taking their cars to work.... Lots of misinterpretations and 
>falsified rumors go with this article...I wish editors/writers would do more research 
>before writing articles of this nature.......
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>Steve
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