Virginian Remembered on Long Island

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NY fans (or visitors to New York City and Long Island) this summer might want to 
visit Planting Fields – the estate of William Robertson Coe, a long time 
director, (1910-1955) and brief time president (1940s) etc of the Virginian 
Railway

Until September 2, they have an exhibit on Coe’s railway interests, particularly 
the Virginian.

http://www.plantingfields.org/

The Virginian had a tugboat named for Coe – after the merger the unsentimental 
N&W renamed it the R.B. Claytor.

Sheesh.

In any case -- there are lovely gardens there -- so the guys can take their 
wives for the day, and surprise them (promise the arboretum, and sneak up on the 
trains).

Cheers,
Jim Guthrie