(erielack) the fate of the EL

["Michael Riley" <wdperson_@_hotmail.com>]

Hope everyone is doing very good this holiday season,

    Just thinking about days gone by.  My thoughts of the EL and its role in 
Conrail.  Just wanted to see if anyone else had observations, thoughts and 
comments on what is to be said on the "treatment" of EL facilities with the 
formation of Conrail.  My knowledge (and please correct me if I am wrong) of 
Conrail is that after the formation of Conrail that most of the upper 
management was from Penn Central.  If I am right this didn't help the EL in 
its ability to keep its routes, facilities after its merging into Conrail.  
With Penn Central upper management, they certainly would keep their lines 
that they knew about and would thus dispose of duplicate/un-necessary EL 
lines.  My thoughts on the EL in Conrail is of one as an afterthought.  That 
the Southern Tier was degraded to a secondary route and the EL main to 
Chicago was abandoned as well as the Dayton Sub, the First Subdivision to 
Cleveland and as well as other lines.  Is there more to the story?  Am I 
missing something or my thoughts, observations correct?

Watching a video called Vignettes of The Erie Lackawanna Vol. 2 and thinking 
what could be, what should be and what we are missing.  Nothing we can do 
about it now, life goes on.

Mike Riley

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