N&W in 1910--Gary Pullman

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When was Penn Station opened? Looks like we need a 1910 Official Guide.
Jim Nichols

 

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
February 23, 1910

 

IN CITY AND COALFIELD

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Pullman Car Change

 

    Commencing March 6th the Pullman car which now runs between Gary and
Philadelphia will run between Gary and Jersey City.  The Pullman from
Roanoke will be discontinued to Jersey City and the Gary Car will do the
work.  For a number of years every man from this section who has visited the
union station in Philadelphia has smiled and thought of home when he saw a
sign at the station saying, "This car for Gary, W. Va."  They can now be at
home in Jersey City as they will be greeted by a sign across the river from
New York which will say in large type, "This car for Gary, W. Va."  Locally
the car will have to be called the New York special, as the people in this
section will feel that they are not being treated right unless they feel
that all the world knows that a car runs direct from Gary and this city to
New York.

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[There are two thing puzzling about this report.  One, the June 1915
Official Guide shows the New York connections then were over the PRR into
Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan--not Jersey City.  Could B&O trains have
been used to Jersey City in 1910?  Two, this same 1915 guide shows Trains 1
and 2 on the Shenandoah Valley route  handling a Pullman between
Winston-Salem and New York and a Pullman between Gary  and Philadelphia.  If
the latter were shifted to Jersey City in 1910, it apparently was shifted
back to Philadelphia by 1915.]

 

Gordon Hamilton

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