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Mike,

Nice work. Thanks for doing this. You found the watercress! While I can’t recall the source, I did read in some previous N&W history item that the watercress was dispatched each day during the spring/summer season on “fast, overnight express train to some of the finest restaurants in New York.”

   Ray Smoot

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> On Apr 18, 2019, at 4:58 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> We stoped in Elliston this afternoon and
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> met Jim Thompson who owns Big Spring and was knowledgeable about the watercress going to market. He was gracious enough to let me take his picture. Also, I went about 500 feet north and shot where a local road crosses the tracks and a small building with a “salvaged” Train Station sign.
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> A small bridge over a creek should nail down the location for any trainmen that traversed this route.
> 
> Mike Pierry, Jr.
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