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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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