Re: [CBQ] Imagine What Travel Was Like in the Classic Era 💭

["Bott, Eric H." <eric.h.bott@outlook.com>]

Chris:

 

I empathize with you.  I’m 69.  I’m told my dad took me to Arlington, VA hump yard when I was 2 and 3 years old to watch the car sorting, but I’m not even sure there are two tracks through Arlington now to connect Union Station with the South, and there is certainly no yard there whatsoever.  I did most of my growing up in suburban CT and Long Island, during which time I always had commuter trains to ride on.  I went to college in Cambridge, MA, and could still use PC and Amtrak for trips home, and even explore the legacy B&M and B&A commuter lines around Boston.  I did get sleeper accommodations once between Washington, DC and Providence, RI.  But I never got to see the carfloat operations at Bay Ridge (let alone Hunt’s Point), never saw the original full trackage at Sunnyside Yards, never saw the NYC’s West Side elevated lines in operation, only once got to see the original Penn Station, never rode the Broadway or 20^th C Limiteds, have only walked across the Poughkeepsie Bridge, never took a NH train north of Danbury, CT, and can’t recall (except for tourist junkets) having seen a steam locomotive in operation.

 

The “older timers” are incredibly valuable repositories of knowledge that I will never gain at first hand. 

 

Respect to those of them who share.

 

-Eric

 

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From: popbumper1
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2022 5:32 PM
To: CBQ@groups.io
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Imagine What Travel Was Like in the Classic Era 💭

 

....and I was also caught in that railroad netherland where the great trains (IMHO) were on their way out. I rode a passenger train (on the NYC) with my Mom when I was very young (probably four years old), but in the sixties, these trains were greatly diminishing/less glamorous, and I just can't recall fine details from that far back....only looking out the window and remembering seeing cars at grade crossings as we passed. I'm 62.

 

Chris Munson

Frisco, Texas

 

 

 

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-------- Original message --------

From: trains@davidstreeter.net

Date: 5/20/22 11:05 AM (GMT-06:00)

To: CBQ@groups.io

Subject: Re: [CBQ] Imagine What Travel Was Like in the Classic Era 💭

 

And some of us aren't old enough to have done did it ourselves in person.

(I'm 55...)

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David Streeter

On 5/20/2022 10:30 AM, jpslhedgpeth via groups.io wrote:

Dave:  Some of us don't have to "IMAGINE" travel in the Classic Era.

 

We "DONE DID IT OURSELVES IN PERSON.

 

Pete

 

 

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