@Will posted:Where are you from? Back in the 90s, I had the opportunity to operate and make a few structures for Harold Werthwein's Erie layout. He modeled Port Jervis to Binghamton. The layout was featured in many publications and is considered one of the great prototypical layouts. Here is a photo by John Edwards from 2007.
Will:
When my sister and I were small, our parents took us to The Glenwood Hotel in Mill Rift (now Millrift), PA. Mill Rift was a flag stop for vacationers who were staying at the hotel and wanted to get back to the city. When I was 6 or 7, the station master(?) handed me the flag to flag down the next train so that the train would stop and the vacationers could go home. He sent me out on the tracks and I waved the flag back and forth a few times and then QUICKLY got off the tracks as the Erie diesel approached. I don't think that any railroad official would have a 6 or 7 year old do anything like that today! Liability? Danger? Death?
I would sit up on the hotel property with my mother and count the cars on the freight trains as they went by. 100 or more cars was common. We even have picture of a steamer on those tracks from the early 50's. I believe I got my love of trains from the 3-4 years we stayed in Mill Rift.
An Erie RS-3 would take us from New Jersey up to Port Jervis and the hotel would pick us up at the station and bring us to the hotel some five miles away, across the river.
John
