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echo: railroad
to: REGGIE ARFORD
from: ALEC CAMERON
date: 1997-05-12 19:31:00
subject: More confessions of a yo

Hi Reggie
On (11 May 97) Reggie Arford wrote to Alec Cameron...
 RA> AC>I don't know the abbreviation CSX. Something South TeXas?
 RA> Nope! That's the actual name of the company. The Chesapeake & Ohio,
 RA> Baltimore & Ohio, and (I think?) the Richmond, Fredricksburg & Potomac
 RA> were merged to form The Chessy System; then
Thanks for the run- down on "transcontinental" business. AUS is about the 
ame
width as US, but we have just one cross- country railroad. I rode it just
once, in 1951. Steam loco, oil fired, just one car was airconditioned- the
diner.  Cheers. .........ALEC
... Drive? I'll take the train as the good Lord intended!  ^oo   oo^oo   oo^
--- PPoint 1.92
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* Origin: Bundanoon, Southern Highlands, NSW AUS (3:712/517.12)

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