@Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:Ah, that is just gold Pat. There isn't anything better than having something like that first hand. My maternal grandfather used to talk about coal a lot. That was because to him coal was tried and true. He never got an oil furnace. I remember asking him once in my teens about the BR&W leaving coal on the tracks. He said that wasn't uncommon to see at all. He said during the depression people would comb the tracks if they had to for coal. Only story I have from him, but my mother's cousin had an even better one. It was about the sale of land to the then railroad of the day from the old farm to the railroad. Wasn't a bill of sale, just change of title from owners to owners and the allotted land for the railroad. That is the land that the BR&W travels on for that stretch that abuts to what was my grandfather's property, now a park. Gotta love stories like that.
Yep, during the depression the folks at the Central did the same thing, grandad often talked about driving his 23 Chevy up and down by the coaling towers at Harmon to fill his trunk with spilt coal,...I have a picture of him with his 23 Chevy after he left work to pick up my grandmother and the back end of the 23 was sagging to the ground,...😁....clearly he had just picked up a load,....
Pat
