Re: (erielack) the fate of the EL

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

I believe that you are, for the most part, correct. The powers that be (That 
were) at Conrail, did pretty much write off the EL, it's people and it's 
trackage (Although they were very pleased with the fact that the EL had 
engines that would run. Unlike a certain major Conrail component RR with a 
rather bland color scheme...). However, the primary reason that the EL 
trackage got the short end of the stick was because the EL's trustees held 
out hope for recovery, instead of packing it in early (Along with a certain 
lack of on-line major businesses on the Marion Division and the Dayton Sub). 
The routes and the facilities to be kept by Conrail were pretty much already 
decided upon, by the time that the EL showed up for inclusion, and so, were 
considered to be superfluous by Conrail management.

Michael Dye ELHS #1516


>From: "Michael Riley" <wdperson_@_hotmail.com>
>
>    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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