Originally Posted by Dewey Trogdon:
Magnificent layout and first class Club. Having worked in Newark in the fabric dye business during the 1960s and until the mid-1970s, I was in Patterson many times. To old and lame to attend but really enjoy the photos and comment.
However, I don't see my favorite old Lackawanna Electrics on the layout, my daily ride from Morris Plains to Hoboken and NYC during the late 1970s which I boarded at 5:50 a.m. daily and returned whenever.
If the gods don't work against me, I'll be there next year and I'll make sure to bring mine with me. Like you I remember what we used to call the "Green Monsters", with the concrete floors, the heaters under the seats that would burn your legs while you froze up top (those 19th century windows weren't exactly weather tight) or sweating in the summer, and the marvelous wicker seats that were worn and torn (the gals used to curse at them, would put runs in their hose all the time)....those were my first tastes of freedom, Morris Plains was about a half hour walk from where I lived/live, with one of our patented 'shortcuts', and it was where around the same time friends and I were making our first trips into NYC by ourselves