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Subj: Re: TODAY Jul 7 Jim Thorpe
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From: KB2VXA@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To : TODAY@WW
For those living in the Central East US, have you ever been to Jim Thorpe,
Pennsylvania? I have and here's a tidbit, originally Mauch Chunk, a Native
American name to begin with and Thorpe being a Native American was not
enough, the city was renamed in his honor. For some strange reason (politics
is SO unpredictable) the name reverted to Mauch Chunk. Again it became Jim
Thorpe, they just couldn't make up their minds. (;->)
Here's a bit of irony, remember I've been there, being a railfan a friend and
fellow hobbyist went there for one of the last rides on the now defunct
Central Railroad, the legendary CNJ. His nickname appropriately The Train,
Steve was a walking encyclopedia and knew railroaders far and wide. Here's
the irony, he was Steven Thorpe, but no relation, it's a common name.
Not the CNJ but my favorite steamer I knew up close and personal while she
was still running the rails, C&O 614.
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"New Jersey, the most American of all states. It has everything from
wilderness to the Mafia. All the great things and all the worst,
like Route 22."
Jean Shepherd K2ORS (SK) & WOR radio personality
73 de Warren
Station powered by JCP&L atomic energy, operator powered by natural gas.
Message timed by NIST: 08-Jul-2015 at 11:37 GMT
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