Last week’s “WW #152” shows what may possibly be one of the last trains over the S&NY. Not sure of the locomotive, but in the train we can see one of the S&NY’s 4-wheel cabooses, ancient bunk car #210, a side-dump work gondola, a mixed bag of freight cars, and ditcher #6 bringing up the rear. Perhaps this train was gathering up the last of the revenue freight cars along the line preparatory to abandonment? In any event, the rural nature of the territory served by the S&NY is quite evident. Modelers of the era, myself included, would do well to remember that agriculture was much more widespread (labor being less expensive, for one) and there were consequently many fewer trees along the ROW in the 1920’s and 30’s than today.
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