Potato season was huge. Kids were allowed to miss school to help bring the crop in. BAR owned a ton of special reefers for the taters. They had charcoal stoves in them to keep potatoes from freezing. In 1969 the Penn central lost almost the entire harvest of Maine, by closing NewHaven's Bay Ridge yard(where they knew potatoes) and sending the trains thru Selkirk yard near Albany NY(where they did not). It froze, and was ruined. The lawsuits flew, and it all got wrapped into Penn central bankruptcy(largest in US history). Farmers and BAR got screwed. That was the last time the crop went by rail until 2021 bumper crop. BAR went under due to the loss of revenue from this, and the closing of paper mills along the route. Penn central was two warring railroads combining, still warring, with miles of redundant track, in an age where rail traffic was slight, and passenger traffic non existent. They held leases to a pile of north east rr's, and the whole system collapsed. The government stepped in and formed Conrail, and Amtrak, as well as spun off a pile of commuter routes to the cities they served, who formed transit agencies to keep the lights on.
Naw... no problem for her. Hell, I went to high school with girls that piled their hair higher than that!
What's wrong with this picture? A Corvair? C'mon. Everyone knows you need a one ton dually with a cummins diesel to tow one of those "campers"
Someone might come along here and accuse you of approaching Corvair poster status. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I even like the historic photos from Portland, Oregon.
Yes there were suppose to be 10 of them along with pick ups, cars, box trucks, flatbeds to support the traveling Future liners. > https://www.hemmings.com/stories/20...obtains-only-known-parade-of-progress-trailer
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