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Ticket, transportation, 5: Conrail Monthly Commutation Ticket, between Hoboken & Ridgewood, July-Sept.; Nov.-Dec. 1981.
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Transportation tickets, five: Conrail Monthly Commutation Ticket, between Hoboken and Ridgewood, July to September; November-December, 1981. Form MCH (except August: form MH.)
Form MCH: printed cardstock, 2" high x 3-5/8" wide, color coded month/year. (Format and width is new in this year, but it has a layout similar to one used in the mid-1970s.)
Form MH: printed on dark tan cardstock, 2" high x 3-1/2" wide; with 7/8" x 1-3/8" high color coded label at left. This ticket format is new and text on back is in a different arrangement from form MCH. Form MH apparently replaced MCH as seen in archives 2014.001.0063, monthly tickets from 1982.
Punches and validation stamps (uniformly used on front over the month/year label; the EL RY stamp still in use) as typical; reverse of all have name of ticket holder.
Railroad tickets for suburban train service that was formerly operated by the Erie Lackawanna Railway. Conrail operated the lines after the EL bankruptcy in 1976.
Form MCH: J.O. Haas, Manager, Passenger Rates & Tariffs.
Form MH: J.O. Haas, Assistant Manager, Passenger Rates & Tariffs.
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railroad / commuting
2014.001.0062
2014.001
Purchase
Purchase
Museum Collections.
1981 - 1981
Date(s) Created: 1981 Date(s): 1981
Good
Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2014-01-30