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Determined woman fights to keep Harlem Valley trains running
MILLERTON, N.Y. Mrs. Gerald Carson president of the Harlem Valley Transportation Association leads a campaign to halt 138 freight line abandonments totaling 1,033 miles in 11 states and two Canadian provinces. A Sept 11 hearing before Federal Judge John A. Fullam is set in Philadelphia, with an related NYS DOT public hearing in Saranac Lake on a Remsen to Lake Placid line. Carson, a former journalist, claims officials pay lip service to rail preservation while railroads lose money, and she asserts the need for a coordinated transportation plan.
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Gerald Carson
Harlem Valley Transportation Association
Interstate Commerce Commission
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John A. Fullam
State Department of Transportation
Saranac Lake
Upstate New York
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Lake Placid
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Department of Transportation
Penn Central
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Sqlurmbla County
Harlem Alley Transportation Association
New York Herald Rune
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Cargon
Harlem
Ghent
Dover Plains
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