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From: intercityrailpal AT netscape DOT net
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 01:10:48 -0500 (EST)
Subject: High revenue western ticket on EL. "New" a new "Upload"
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Here's a new ticket up loaded today for your viewing pleasure. It's a high revenue interline Milwaukee Road - Erie-Lackawanna ticket book. Keep in mind a day's pay for a C&NW clerk like myself at the time was about $22. That was good money in those days. I started working for the C&NW as a clerk in 1968 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I couldn't wait for a job to come up on the EL or had any knowledge one ever would. Things being as bad as they were on the eastern railroads. You can see the high Erie fares at that time. C&NW had dropped out of the pass bureau and besides even if I got a C&NW pass I would have had to be there ten years to get it. And it only would have been on C&NW lines. So I always had to buy train tickets at public prices. I still do. The fare between Milwaukee and Chicago was $3.27 so the rest of the income went to EL. I did ask a agent in Hoboken if I could buy a 10 trip ticket to Chicago. He said NO! Lackawanna-Pacific Lance

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