| Christmas Eve on the Third Avenue El (Barten, 2006) |
 A light snow had been falling through the afternoon, and by sundown had covered everything with a layer of white. As darkness fell, a damp north-easterly wind began to stir. I felt a chill as I hurried along Third Avenue toward the 89th Street Elevated station near our home. I tightened the scarf around my neck and leaned into the wind. I rounded the corner, passing the vegetable market with the light streaming through its windows, and headed toward the foot of the stairway that led up to the station.
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| Meet Franklin Prestage (D'Angelo, 2006) |
 John D'Angelo travels back in time to interview Franklin Prestage, creator of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
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| Pigs is Pigs (Butler, 1905) |
This is a humorous story of one freight agent who stuck to the rules. [Public domain.] PDF, Palm, TXT |
| The Blizzard of '47 (Barten, 2006) |
 Let me tell you about the Blizzard of '47. I'd like to start out by saying something catchy, like "It began quietly, almost imperceptibly, with a few flakes of snow falling from an ashen sky...", but the truth is I don't remember. I was barely 8 at the time, living on the 9th floor of an apartment building at 90th and Lexington in New York's Borough of Manhattan. What I DO remember is that there was a lot of snow. No, let me put it another way: There was A LOT OF SNOW!!! So much snow, 4 feet by one account, that there was nothing moving on Lexington Avenue or any of the cross streets except for the dump trucks hauling snow (to the East River, I suspect). HTML |
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