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Subject: Speaking of Local Trains and Railroads...

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Date Posted: 06:40:31 04/03/09 Fri

My first memory of the trains at Newburgh was my dad driving me down onto South Water Street to see the old Railway Express Agency trucks and wagons parked outside of the West Shore RR station, and further down on River Road where you could park and watch the Erie RR yard switch engines assembling and dissembling freight. I'd always try to have one of the engineers give me a wave. The Erie was also involved in the death of my greatgrandfather Cavanaugh in 1913 in New Windsor, when, in his old age and quite deaf, he was run down and killed by a crack Erie passenger train. And back up in the Colonial Terraces if the wind was blowing west off the river on a warm summer night, you could hear the clashing crunch from the activity in the Erie yard, and the wail of the whistles of the NYCRR trains as they sped through Beacon.

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