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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by PASMITH Harrington Park, NJ on the tracks of the NYC West Shore division. Where Herb Chaudierre first stared recording the sounds of steam locomotives , Fred Icken had his custom built locomotive shop a block from my house and Richard Stoving was president of our high school model RR club. How could you not become a model railroader ? Peter Smith, Memphis [/quote] It is way too small a world to ignore this. I also grew up in Harrington Park and lived there from 1956 to 1979. Lived on Harriot Ave. two houses east of the West Shore and saw it go from NYC to PC to CR. My dad rode the commuter trains to Weehawken until they were taken off, my first two train rides were commuter trains behind lightning striped RS2's and I've had cab rides from Weehawken to Selkirk on both PC & CR. I distinctly remember seeing the DRGW Krause-Maffei diesel-hydraulics that NYC tested (that was my show-and-tell item in school that morning!) and my brother and I would always get up early to watch NYC E8's on the group of passenger trains taking cadets from West Point to Philadelphia for the Army-Navy football game. Bill Wilcox St. Louis, Missouri
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