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Re: (erielack) Three Questions - Mail Trains
Hello Friends of Smiley and Phoebe
Did these trains operate via the Main Line or the Bergen County shortcut?
Thanks
Len Allman
ELHS#2205
> One other interesting fact about 3 and 4 . . . . they usually carried one or
> two TOFC cars, and stopped at Bergen Junction (between HX Tower
and West End
> Tower, adjacent to Croxton Yard), where a switcher from Croxton would
come
> up the "High Line" (former Erie main to Jersey City) to either add the
cars
> westbound, or pull the cars off eastbound. The TOFC was loaded /
unloaded
> at the Croxton ramp, as with any other TOFC on the NY Division. Bergen
Jct.
> (Erie side) was controlled by HX Tower, so the operator at HX would
> orchestrate the moves.
>
> I did find an April 1964 Official Guide, indicating 7 and 8 as coach-only
> trains. 7 left Hoboken at 12:30 am and arrived Chicago at 4:30 am
(Central
> Time) the next day. Number 8 left Chicago at 9:15 pm, and arrived in
> Hoboken at 2:15 am. 28-29 hour schedules, which were tightened up a
bit
> once they became no-passenger 3 and 4.
>
> Jim Gerofsky
>
>
>
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