https://passengertrainjournal.com/passenger-trains-lehigh-valley/ I have great memories of several summers spent in the late 50's and 60's at my Aunts home in Manchester NY. She was in the last house on Merrick Ave right across from the train yard which was 47 tracks wide back then and the largest yard east of the Mississippi. My Uncle Tony DeMott who passed away in the 1950's had worked in that train yard. We would sit on the front porch in the evening, maybe have a cup of ice cream with the wood spoons from the small store down the road and listen to the radio. No TV until Mrs Moon from Moon Coal company gave one to my Aunt as a gift. The house did have indoor plumbing but no bathtub. I still have the galvanized tub I used outside in the summer. Aunt Mary would heat up some water on the stove and I would bath in that galvanized tub out behind the house. The sound and diesel smell of the idling engines filled the air day and night. My Brother and I sometimes wandered to the abandoned roundhouse where all the locals hung out and sometimes would throw rocks at the small windows. Today there is one set of tracks and the rail overpass at Rt21 is gone. Aunt Mary's house is still there. The current owners totally remodeled it and added a large garage and pool to the property.
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