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From: Mike Oravec MOEL AT paonline DOT com
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:45:23 -0400
Subject: Re: (erielack) What was the Shopper's Special...?
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I think the Shopper's Special was a pre-holiday excursion run in the
years after #40 and #43 were removed from the schedule. Prior to that
they probably just added extra cars to the "Pocono" and "Twilight".
Here is a Scranton ad from 1964.

"What train do you guys want to come back on?"

Mike Oravec


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