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Re: (erielack) Silk Trains
Mills in the Scranton area were another destination for raw silk via Erie. I found an article about a silk heist (ten bales valued at $1,000 each) from the baggage room at the Erie station (now Cooper's Restaurant) on March 21, 1931.
Mike Oravec
tonyhorn_@_earthlink.net wrote:
> Paterson NJ was known as "The Silk City" and had a number of silk mills.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> >>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.
> >>
> >>Alan Vanterpool
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