I, too, would love to see the "Trains of Troy NY. Thanks. Bette ----- Original Message ----- From: <Flcuerin@cs.com> To: <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Trains in Troy!! >I would love to see the book "Trains of Troy, NY". My mother's brothers >were > railroad men. I used to sit in the kitchen window of my Grand father's > third > floor home and watch the switching of box cars. In North Troy we used to > go > behind the Knickerbocker Junior High School to go across the tracks and > hike up > to the Oakwood Cemetary. At that time the trains were steam driven and > North > bound trains would put out a huge amount of smoke which we were told would > kill > if inhaled. Sometimes we put a penny on the track to let the engine squash > it > but I don't recall ever finding it after the train passed. > Al Cuerdon > 1406 Fairway Dr > Dunedin FL 34698 > ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== > Did you pay your 2008 Dues? > Troy Irish Genealogy Society > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 5.6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 20850 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message