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Wayne_Kozun

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Re: Classic Courses and Railroads
« Reply #50 on: August 29, 2021, 03:46:45 PM »
Congrats Duncan - an 18 year necropost might be a new record!
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Sean_A

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Re:Classic Courses and Railroads
« Reply #51 on: August 30, 2021, 05:46:28 AM »
Quote from: Bob_Huntley on November 11, 2003, 02:27:02 PM
Mark,

What about Beaconsfield?

Blast from the past. I think the guy who developed Beaconsfield worked some sort of deal to know there would be a stop near the property before he developed the course. The train stop is just a few minutes walk from the house.

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Wayne_Kozun

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Re: Classic Courses and Railroads
« Reply #52 on: August 30, 2021, 01:12:29 PM »
My home club, Scarboro in Toronto, is on the main CN rail line from Toronto to Montreal.  There are stories that when the club first opened (1912) that members would bribe the train conductor with bottles of whisk(e)y to make unscheduled stops at the golf club.
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Mark Mammel

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Re: Classic Courses and Railroads
« Reply #53 on: August 30, 2021, 02:33:42 PM »
White Bear Yacht Club had a railroad stop directly in front of the golf course in Dellwood. The train to White Bear Lake opened in 1868, well before the club's founding, and still existed into the 1960s as the Burlington Northern Santa Fe line. Travel from downtown St Paul, where many early member lived in the winter, took 20 minutes- faster than travel today by car on most days.

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