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["JG at graytrainpix" <graytrainpix_@_hotmail.com>]

Drew / PVO wasn't the only waste-water operation on the EL.  There was once 
an Avon perfume plant on the Piermont Branch about two miles east of SF 
Tower (Suffern, NY).  The EL got a tank or two of waste water now and then 
from it.  One of the Ford Drills would go up the branch and retrieve the 
car, and place it in Hillburn Yard for pickup by an eastbound road freight.  
One summer evening in 1967 I was hanging out at Rutherford station (NJ) and 
an eastbound freight came by with a tank car near the head end spilling some 
liquid out of an open spigot in its belly.  The stuff was splashing all over 
the roadbed, and I thought it was all some terrible mistake; perhaps the 
town would have to be evacuated because it was toxic waste or was causing 
poisonous fumes.  But no, no one at all was upset about it.  It hardly had 
an odor to it.  About a year later, an EL towerman told me that he saw the 
same thing a couple of times; it was wastewater out of the Avon plant, and 
the spigot was opened intentionally.  In another year or two, the state and 
federal environmental agencies got up to speed, and wastewater dumping in 
transit because history.

Jim Gerofsky

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