When I was a young lad, we would travel to Port Jervis via the Erie? (Maybe O&W?) and then take an automobile ride to Forestburgh, where my aunt had a summer home. I remember visiting a place called the Sho Fu Den and also Monticello. We had to take a ferry to the Jersey Shore to get the train, but I was about 5 years old in 1947, and my memory is a little fuzzy! Did the Erie also run through Port Jervis? I do remember the steam Loco backing up to couple onto our train, and the tender backup light as we were in the first coach!
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