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Re: (erielack) Re: "SDP45-2" 3667 (3)

I realized that in responding to this last night, I didn't indicate the date
when this occurred, which was November 23, 1973...Thanksgiving Day.

Rich Behrendt
ELHS #384

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From: "Rich/Amy Behrendt" <behr_@_core.com>
To: "Blue Moon Network Administrator" <root_@_net.bluemoon.net>; "Erie
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Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: (erielack) Re: "SDP45-2" 3667 (2)


>
> > So when exactly was tha wreck? Where's the authoritative data?
> >
> Don't know about 'authoritivative data', but the wreck of #3657 & #3667
> occured when the two units were moving eastbound NY100 through Ohio when
the
> train, traveling east on the westbound main to overtake two slower
eastbound
> merchandise trains, went through into a thrown switch at the
Harbison-Walder
> Brickyard in Windham on the Mahoning Div., sending the train into the
> siding.  The switch was vandalized and thrown by two kids, 7 & 8 years
old.
>
> Engineer Raymond Wilcox was killed,with the Brakeman and Fireman injured.
> The wreck caused  about $500,000 in damage at a time when the EL could ill
> afford it.
>
> This was exerpted from Vol. 1, No. 4 of the ELHS's Erie Railfan -
ironically
> as part of the story, editor Roger Rasor printed the photograph he had
taken
> of the ill-fated eastbound 90 minutes earlier as it rolled through
> Wadsworth...
>
> Rich Behrendt
> ELHS #384
>
>

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