On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Dad wrote: 8<-- > THAT, my friends, is OLD!!! They didn't use the mileposts, just names. Other > B&O names that stick in my mind are BIRDSH*T HOLLOW in W. Va. and DAISY > MAE - at this place there was nothing but a log cabin and a small cornfield > between the base of the mountain & the railroad &Potomac River. You could > faintly see a dirt road weeviling up the mountain but NO electricity - oil > lamps showed in the windows. We'd get a paper when we left Pittsburg & toss > it to them when we went b. THAT goes back a ways. > Regards to all, To the best of knowledge those names are both still used by at least some CSX crews today. I have heard the BIRDS*** HOLLOW one reported recently. Henry The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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