Re: (erielack) Concordance Map (was re: Further Query-EL West End)

["Michael Dye" <"luxpan_@_hotmail.com">]

I've wondered about that. I can understand why Conrail would be pulling up 
rails, to be used on fixing up the @#$@#$%$#!!! PC lines that they decided 
to keep, but why alternate sides in double track territory? To slow trains 
down so they could more easily justify abandonment?

Michael Dye ELHS #1516


>From: "Bill K." <"pontiac_@_dreamscape.com">
>To: "gelwood" <"gelwood_@_dnaco.net">, "Michael Dye" <luxpan@hotmail.com>
>CC: <"erielack_@_internexus.net">
>Subject: Re: (erielack) Concordance Map (was re: Further Query-EL West End)
>Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 21:14:55 -0400
>
>I think this was standard procedure on lines they wanted to get rid of.
>Reason I say so is the LV west end, also abandoned, does the same switch of
>track alignments in the middle of Manchester (NY) Yard where a shortline
>still runs a few miles of the mainline.   Also, Finger Lakes' portion of
>the LV does some sharp alignment moves where the connecting track from the
>lower-level yards joins the remaining mainline track.   Makes me wonder if
>any other lines that ended up surplus, do the same thing -
>
>Bill K.
>
>----------
> > From: gelwood <"gelwood_@_dnaco.net">
> > To: Michael Dye <"luxpan_@_hotmail.com">
> > Cc: "erielack_@_internexus.net"
> > Subject: Re: (erielack) Concordance Map (was re: Further Query-EL West
>End)
> > Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 6:23 PM
> >
> > I have the book and thought the same thing.  If I knew Cook I would
> > ask.  I do have the maps generated by the EL on what both B&O/C&O would
> > keep when that purchase was discussed (everything east of Sterling) and
>CR
> > (everything east of MArion).  It was interesting to see how CR removed
>the
> > CR line between Marion and Akron. They would take out alternate section
> > between crossover. This made operating the EL difficult.  You would run
> > down the eastbound main for a few miles then over to the westbound main
> > for a few miles.
> >
> > George Elwood
> > http://www.dnaco.net/~gelwood
> >
> > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Michael Dye wrote:
>
>
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