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I thought 1981 was the first year also, since we were out there that year on our honeymoon, but I am not the expert on the Silverton Line that Mike Trent and others are so defered to his numbers. Either way I get the point.
Mr. Johnsons remark about Santa letters brings back memories of another Santa experience. We have some movies of Santa arriving in style behind a K2a(Streamilined 4-8-2), or a Class J(4-8-4 Streamlined), at Batavia station, and handing my little brother a Christmas gift. I think this lasted until around 1958 or so, which is when steam was gone, and so was the daily stopper, the Cavalier(ended in 1957).
We also have some movies of picking up mail on the fly here at Batavia with the mail hook as the Powhaton Arrow went through without stopping for passengers(later years Batavia was a flag stop only). All that old railroading is a thing of the past that is gone forever from a different era.
Greg
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