Walt- you say: "U have no idea how happy I was to see my old friend #621 in Mr. Dukarms fotos. At Youngstown no less...." Not too many Baldwins around. I guess you liked that one. Also, Pavonia Avenue hasn't changed, underground; the H&M PATH station is still there. As for air support, we had a guy running a Burro crane in the Bergen Hill cut, leading to Journal Square. He looked up, and saw kids running away. The next thing he knew was when he woke up, in the hospital. The kid made a direct hit. I was working a tower (phone booth size,) called Nave, (for Newark Ave.,) on the National Docks, under Dickenson High School, (with a view of the Erie elevation, sans trains,) and the kiddies liked to stone me. I didn't get hit, though. They put Nave in after the PC merger, when the B&B department built a bridge from the Pennsy's Passaic and Harsimus Branch to the National Docks, so they could get trains from the Meadows to Selkirk. The kids loved that. There was more freight, sold on the streets of New York, from our trains, than you can imagine. Philip Martin The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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