Not much has been said about the the July picture. It is interesting. It is one of the few shots I have ever seen of an uninteruppted Erie passenger consist. All Green/Gray and Green from PA through. Not hard to do when there are only three cars. The calendar says this is train 26 and it probably is considering the baggage car. It could have been a PJ train carrying bulk mail. I'm not sure how mail was handled on that line. If it is 26, EL is not very concerned about accomodating passengers. Why not at least use one of the Erie thru-line reclining seat coaches? The Stillwells were airconditioned but the seats weren't very good for long trips. It would have been hard to try and sleep in them. I wonder how many passengers actually transferred to 26 at Binghamton. 26 was probably just another commuter train picking up passengers at Port Jervis and Middletown for a quick trip to Hoboken. Ed Montgomery The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org To Unsubscribe: http://lists.elhts.org/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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