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Posted by fisk ave jim on Wed Apr 21 20:01:37 2010, in response to Re: Is Something happening to the New Haven Line?, posted by andy on Wed Apr 21 13:12:24 2010. Years ago, when the first wave of bomb cars showed up on the hudson line, there were no bar cars at all & the riders bitched. So the railroad caved & took #6152 & ripped out several rows of seats & luggage racks, installed a pre fab bar & presto! a bar car.When I first moved upstate, I'd ride in the bar car & met several good people & some turned out to be friends for life. Good quality workin class folk who just happened to like a cocktail & a smoke to wind down from the day. But the beginning of the end was the smoking ban that took effect in 1988 IIRC. A drink without a smoke?? Impossible!! But they did'nt get the message to stop smoking in the bar car intil plainclosed cops showed up one day & hit these working class types with $50 DAT's To wrap this up, the suits decided to end Hudson Line bar car service to Poughkeepsie, ripped out the pre-fab bar, replaced the seats & #6152 is now just another coach in the fleet. But any trainpersons who post here & someday work that car, stop in the middle where the bar was, on the right side, you can still see holes in the wall where the NYS licquor license frame was. Hold one hand over your heart & the other over your liver! If those walls could talk.. |
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