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(erielack) Silk Trains

I recieved this question via my website, does anyone have any info on this?

Fred Stratton
erief7_@_msn.com
Clearwater, Florida

>From: Alan Vanterpool <avtpool_@_shaw.ca>
>To: erief7_@_msn.com
>Subject: Silk Trains
>Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:50:43 -0700
>
>Hello:
>
>From 1895 to 1935 fast trains moved bales of raw silk landed at west coast 
>ports to the east coast. I understand the Erie Rail Road was one of the 
>eastern roads with which the western roads interchanges their cars of silk. 
>Do you have any information on this - especially where the loads terminated 
>on the Erie system.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Alan Vanterpool

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