Re: (rshsdepot) 1903 Photo Excursion . . .

["Paul S. Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

rshsdepot
Cool...learn something new every day...she must have been well known as
Phoebe Snow, as no other name was mentioned. so I thought a train Oops!

Paul
- -----Original Message-----
From: Don Dorflinger <donnielee46_@_hotmail.com>
To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net <rshsdepot@lists.railfan.net>
Date: Sunday, March 04, 2001 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) 1903 Photo Excursion . . .


>rshsdepot
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>>By the way in my scrolling through 1903 NY Times I came across an =
>>interesting little item..An special excursion to the Delaware Water Gap =
>>(I think) so as to afford photographers opportunity to shoot the Phoebe =
>>Snow as it came by...
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>They would have had a long wait...the first Lackawanna train named "Phoebe
>Snow" did not operate on the DL&W until 1949.
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>More likely, this was a news photographer's special so that the media could
>photograph New York model Marion Murray, dressed all in white as "Phoebe
>Snow" to promote the railroad's new ad campaign regarding the burning of
>cleaner anthracite coal in their locomotives. As best as anyone can tell,
>the campaign was launched either in late 1902 or early 1903, so the time of
>the excursion fits perfectly. And what better place to snap some shots than
>at the Delaware Water Gap...long a staple landmark on the DL&W's route from
>Hoboken to Buffalo. In fact, the very first "Phoebe" jingle read:
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>               "...These are the views disclosed to sight
>                Of Water Gap and mountain height
>                That lie on the Road of Anthracite..."
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