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Article: BERKSHIRE RAILWAY IS BACK ON TRACK.(Living Today)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- July 24, 1988
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Byline: Vinod Chhabra Staff writer
The haunting blast echoes through the valley. The brakes sigh, the tracks groan, and slowly the old train begins rumbling south along the Housatonic River.
Seventy-five-year-old Jack Dempsey, in sparkling navy and white, tucks his railroad watch into a his pocket, pulls off his white trainman's gloves and takes in the landscape rocking by at the top speed of 14 mph.
"A time table I had showed the old New Haven Line pouring it on around these parts - 55 (mph) around the curves, more than 70 on the straightaway south of Great Barrington," he says.
That was back around the turn of the century and into ...
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