Re: (erielack) The Delay, Linger & Wait

["Gary R. Kazin" <gkazin_@_yahoo.com>]

- --- Peter Heimbach <plh5_@_charter.net> wrote:
> I always objected to the Delay, Linger and Wait comments since for three
> years in the sixties from Basking Ridge to Newark I always made my 9 AM 
> classes at NCE.
> The cartoon indicates that that name came from a time long before I rode
> the train.

Many of our lines had similar derogatory nick-names, some well earned and
others not.  The Suzy-Q was called the "Now You Sit and Wait".  The ERIE
was the "Weary Erie".  The New York, Ontario & Western was the "Old Woman".

Gary R. Kazin
DL&W Milepost R35.7
Rockaway, New Jersey


		
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