1917--Norwood Trains

From the October 24, 1917 edition of the Potsdam Courier and Freeman, page 4:

 

Why Norwood Is Satisfied

 

Some of our neighboring villages are complaining of mail service, late mail and express trains. Those towns should remember that it is the large amount of war freight being handled by the railroads that causes much of this delay, and that they should look at it as a patriotic necessity and not find fault at this particular time. Unless more coal is received in this North Country soon, a train of coal will be more welcome than a mail train.-Norwood News.

 

The towns of this North Country which are fighting for a decent train service need no inspired articles from the pious News of Norwood as to what they should do. The News can be thankful that Norwood is situated at a junction with the Rutland Railroad. This system which in years past has been more or less of a joke in railroading, is getting to the front these days. Its trains the past summer have been practically on time. A traveler can actually leave New York and get into Norwood over the Rutland in shorter time than he can make the same journey over the New York Central. The Rutland's thro' train from Boston to Ogdensburg is operating close to schedule every day. All this in striking contrast to the delays of from one to three hours on the St. Lawrence Division of the New York Central. No wonder the News is satisfied. Its town has a route which it can travel with some certainty of arriving somewhere!

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