Re: (erielack) Erie question

["David Monte Verde" <"dmvgvt_@_earthlink.net">]

The Erie was down for a while, but not as long as the Lackawanna.  The DL
did run over the Erie latter to Hoboken, so the Erie was repaired long
before the DL.  I remember ridding to 'oboken, and seeing a guy sitting in
the men's lounge & I asked him what he was, because I was 8 and he looked
like a railroader.  He told me he was a PILOT because the Lackawanna was
running over the Erie's track.  Further questioning  by a 8 year old could
not conceive what value this "conductor pilot" added to the operation of a
DL train on the Erie.
    On a different note, we had a wash out in 1997 along  Roaring Brook east
of Scranton on the Delaware-Lackawanna RR, and we found that when the DL
rebuilt the tracks after Diane, they did not bother to rip up, cut up, or
bulldoze the old washed out main they just filled over it, because we
discovered whole sections of railroad buried beneath the existing tracks.

Regards David Monte Verde
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From: "MONTGOMERY| ED" <"emontgom_@_lan.tjhsst.edu">
To: <"erielack_@_internexus.net">
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 14:50
Subject: (erielack) Erie question


> I've kicked this question around a little and wonder if anyone has an
> answer.  Most people know what happened to the Lackawanna 45
> years ago when Hurricane Diane really messed over the company.
> The Lackawanna diverted passenger trains over the Lehigh Valley
> between Easton and Scranton.
>
> I have never discovered what happened on the Erie side during that
> storm.  I know that Port Jervis was underwater and wasn't there a
> washout around Shohola or Lackawaxen?  What did the Erie do with
> its passenger trains.  They diverted some of the freights over the
> O&W.
>
> I was on the line w/Paul T on the O&W detour and he didn't believe
> the Erie passenger trains ran over the O&W.  I was looking at the
> website containing NJ railroads and there is an O&W employees
> timetable published from the 1930's.  That was when the company
> was in pretty good shape.  Top speeds were 40 mph!  Slow orders
> on almost all bridges.  This was nothing more than a longer version
> of the old Susquehenna.
>
> So, what happened to the Erie passenger trains during the flood of
> 1955?  Does anybody know.
>
> Ed
>
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