Subject: Railroads in T P (was: Leland trapped in the '40s, again)
From: brennan@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Joseph Brennan)
Date: 1990-11-05, 12:55
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <114030011@hpcuhd.HP.COM> grega@hpcuhd.HP.COM (Number 6)
writes about:

>>> >>> The songs chosen must be significant. So far I've heard
>>> >>> "Pennslyvania 7-5000" (I probably have this title wrong),
>> >> Pennsylvania 6500 - Maybe a reference to the train car?

and says:

> >Pennsylvania 6-5000, phone number of a famous hotel whose name I've forgotten.

The Pennsylvania Hotel, a very large hotel opposite Penn Station, New
York, and a classy place to stay back when most people travelled by
rail.  It had a a large ballroom and nightclub, and performances there
by big bands were broadcast live on the radio.

It is now run as the New York Penta, and the phone number is still
(212) 736-5000--I checked!

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As to railroad clues: The Great Northern Hotel appears to be named for
the Great Northern Railway, main line Minneapolis to Seattle, the most
northerly of the USA transcontinentals.  Mythical Twin Peaks, near the
Canadian border, could plausibly have been a stopover point on the GN.
The railroad car may even be a GN coach (or baggage car, from the open
interior).  I didn't catch a name on it.  The derelict car is
apparently part of a tourist steam line between Snoqualmie and North
Bend, where the other locations are shot, and they may have some old
GN equipment even though the actual line was I think Milwaukee Road.

Using the song PEnnyslvania6-5000 may be a really twisted clue to
connect another railroad hotel to WKLP, but I kind of doubt it.

Joe Brennan