TRANSPORTATION: Pomonok

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{See map) When a little island is balanced on the finger tip of an island many times its size, and when the larger island has a population as great as that of Indiana, a population much of which wishes to visit the little island daily, logic would seem to indicate but one conclusion: that the railroad providing the transportation should have a very profitable job. Yet the Long Island Railroad has only a long record of lean years and deficits to show for performing that sort of job. From 1897 to 1926...

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