RE: (erielack) Re: place names (was subject matter)

["Michael Connor" <mjconnor_rr_@_hotmail.com>]

Mike
Steamburg was on the Main Line and is still rail served by the WNY&P.  Into 
at least the early '60's the creamery was a regular carload shipper of 
liquid milk.  I believe #8 (Atlantic Express) handled the traffic.  I am not 
aware of how the return empties were handled.
M J Connor


>From: Michael Sheehy <njnyrr_@_optonline.net>
>Reply-To: Michael Sheehy <njnyrr_@_optonline.net>
>To: erielack_@_lists.elhts.org
>Subject: RE: (erielack) Re: place names (was subject matter)
>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:49:48 -0500
>
>
> >Heck, "Lackawanna" is Native American!  (doesn't it mean "place where the
>rivers meet" or "place >where the river forks"?)
>
>	- Paul
>I thought it meant "Place where anthracite is" or "Home of Phoebe Snow" :)
>
>How about NY...
>-Painted Post
>-Horseheads
>-Gang Mills
>-Deposit
>-Not far from Salmanca, there is a "Steamburg". Did the E-L run through
>there?
>
>And how many murdered pronounciations and misspellings of the below?
>-Salamanca
>-Olean
>-Cattaraugus
>-Avoca
>-Callicoon
>
>Or my favorite, "Pearl River", often pronounced as "Perrivr" by conductors
>on the Pascack Valley Line.
>
>
>
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