Train names

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Sat Jan 27 08:51:05 EST 2007


Maybe Phoebe Snow's white dress stayed white; but I remember it differently.
I grew up along the New York and Long Branch, a commuter line with both PRR
and NJC steam power, using anthracite coal. We lived two blocks from the
tracks. One of my chores was to gently tap the cinders from mom's sheets which
were drying on the clothesline, before taking them back into the house.
Maybe the frequent stops and starts
(stations averaged one per mile) boosted the production of cinders, compared
to cruising for miles at higher speed. or maybe it was just an ad man's pen
at work. Any members who grew up along DL&W's commuter lines in north NJ ?

Jerome Crosson
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