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From: "J DOT Henry Priebe Jr DOT " root AT bluemoon DOT net
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 01:53:28 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: (erielack) Re: SNOW - Remember 1969?
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2015, Gordon Davids wrote:

>
> I hope the attachment makes it through the pipe. It's four letters and
> memos that tell part of the story of how EL kept operating on February 9
> and 10, 1969, after every other railroad around New York except PATH
> gave it up. Our Passengers, our Leaders and our Board of Directors
> showed some appreciation.
>
> There was no question about keeping the trains running. We just did it,
> meaning everyone was on deck. Trackmen and signal maintainers just
> showed up on Sunday night. Train and engine crews did, too, and many of
> them slept in the coaches until their trains were (sort of) due out.
>
> We told people we were not holding to a schedule, but if you come to the
> station we will get you to Hoboken. And we did.
>
> - Gordon Davids

The list only accepts GIF and JPeg images, not PDF files. I manually extracted
the PDF from the backup of the original listmail and converted the pages to
JPegs.

Henry

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