Yesterday, I mentioned that in 1950 the Lackawanna had four trains from New York City to Buffalo: the Phoebe Snow, Twilight, Westerner, and the Owl. Except for the Phoebe Snow, their eastbound counterparts used different names. These were the Pocono Express (apparently the eastbound Twilight), New Yorker (apparently the eastbound Westerner), and New York Mail (apparently the eastbound Owl).

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Train numbers weren’t necessarily paired. The Westerner/New Yorker were paired with 7 & 8. But the Twilight/Pocono Express were trains 5 & 2 and the Owl/New York Mail were 15 and 10. Even the Phoebe Snow‘s numbers were unpaired, being 3 & 6.

In addition to some local trains, the Lackawanna also had trains from Hoboken to Scranton and Hoboken to Binghamton. One peculiar train was the Interstate Express, which sent a sleeping car from Syracuse to Philadelphia via the Central of New Jersey and Reading railroads south of Wilkes-Barre.