[78-L] ^White Christmas

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid
Tue Dec 25 16:35:57 PST 2018


And this hasn't been off topic..many of the songs were on 78 singles.

dl


On 12/25/2018 4:44 PM, Rodger Holtin 78-L wrote:
> 78-L triumphs once again!
> Thank you one and all for your digital input.
>
> We return you now to Ernest Saves Christmas over most of this digital wasteland.
>
> Sent from my sluggish old iPhone, which explainz any bad typjng, bad spellimg, nonsensical word choices, delays and all other lapses.
>
>> On Dec 25, 2018, at 4:21 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>
>> And they'd have strangled one another rather than sing one more chorus of that
>> tuneless tempo-free piece of crap 'Snow'.
>>
>> I said it and I'm glad.
>>
>> dl
>>
>>
>>> On 12/25/2018 4:19 PM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
>>>> On 12/25/2018 2:57 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>>>> Here you go, from the man who knows.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> There was no direct service from Miami to Vermont, nor is there now.  They
>>>> would have had to change trains at New York's Penn Station, which is where all
>>>> the Florida trains terminated and originated; there was no Florida service
>>>> available out of Grand Central Terminal.
>>>>
>>>> The fastest trip from Miami to NY Penn Station would have been on a name train
>>>> such as the East Coast Champion or the Silver Meteor, which would have taken 24
>>>> to 25 hours.  A connecting train from Penn Station would have then taken them
>>>> to Vermont, which would have added another five to 10 hours, dependent on the
>>>> final destination within the state.
>>>>
>>>> The two pieces of stock footage used in that portion of the film are a Santa Fe
>>>> San Diegan on the coast south of Los Angeles and a Southern Pacific secondary
>>>> long-haul train with several mail and express cars right behind the
>>>> locomotives.  Neither railway ever got anywhere near Florida or Vermont.
>>>>
>>>> */Greg Gormick/*
>>>> */On Track Strategies/*
>>>> */Oshawa, Ontario/*
>>>> */  and/*
>>>> */Studio City, California/*
>>> Excellent!
>>>
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