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Interview with Anne Bridgman - She Describes the Fruit Train

Before my time I know that Winona and Grimsby and all these places along here were amazingly productive in terms of producing all sorts of fruit that was shipped daily as far as I know on a fruit train that came through and there were shipping points at Winona, Grimsby, and other places all down the Peninsula and there was a fruit train that came through and all these young fellows were on the train and they'd swoop down and put on these hundreds or maybe even thousands of baskets and they went onto the Maritimes and I remember.. Oh, Montreal...