Re: (erielack) Strates Carnival train derails in Olean

[Kevin DeGroff <"kdegroff_@_starpower.net">]

The Strates family also owns a some fairground property down in South 
Carolina, which the train visits twice a year.

They winter in Flroida, start the season in South Carolina and Maryland,
and then head up to New Jersey and Western NY.  After that, they return to 
South Carolina, before going back to Florida.  This year's NJ to WNY travels
were over the NYSW via the Erie Delaware Div. 

On their website, there were at least 3 unbooked dates this year.  They 
ended up holding over an extra week here or there, and likewise set up 
an improptu carnival on the Irondequoit mall parking lot (Rochester area) 
in between two upstate NY gigs.  Given the 3 open slots, I wonder how well 
the business is doing?  

Most of the time they travel the Buffalo Line and go via Hargerstown.
IIRC a couple of years ago the train was involved in an incident where 
the boom on a crane broke loose and rotated, taking out quite a few 
lineside signals before it smacked a bridge or something.  It was 
noteworthy in that CR had no spares immediately on hand to replace the
broken signals. 




"Bill K." wrote:
> 
> Yeah, it had to go that way - it left here (Syracuse) sometime Wednesday
> westbound on CSX.  Interestingly it both arrived and departed with one CSX
> and one ex-MPI blue and gold leaser for power.  Not sure where it was headed
> though -
> 
> Bill K.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Will" <"alcoman_@_net.bluemoon.net">
> To: "Kevin DeGroff" <"kdegroff_@_starpower.net">
> Cc: "erielack" <"erielack_@_internexus.net">
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 5:41 PM
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Strates Carnival train derails in Olean
> 
> >
> > Looks like the Strates Train is having a bad luck year.  First the car
> > fire in Hamburg.....now this... I know the train was coming from the the
> > NY State Fair in Syracuse...but what were they doing on the Buffalo Line
> > and where were they headed to and from...had the train passed thru
> > Buffalo???
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Kevin DeGroff wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >It looks like 2 cars carrying amusement rides and support vehicles
> > >overturned on the Buffalo Line this morning, immediately north of
> > >the EL diamond at the location of old X tower.
> > >
> > >http://www.oleantimesherald.com/pictoday.htm
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