Re: (erielack) EL Name

["Tom Beckett" <tabeckett_@_stny.rr.com>]

I imagine they were not too happy about it, but it didn't hit them nearly as
hard as Hornell, where they went from hundreds of railroad jobs to almost
zero. Hornell doesn't have nearly the economic diversity Marion had.

TAB
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From: "MONTGOMERY| ED" <emontgom_@_LAN.TJHSST.EDU>
To: <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 5:47 AM
Subject: (erielack) EL Name


> When I lived out in Ohio in the 70s, many people never adopted the
> whole "Erie Lackawanna" name.  It was still "Erie" to many.
> However, around the time of the Bankruptcy the newspapers
> around Marion started calling it the "Erie Lack -a-Money".  EL had
> a lot of plans for a classification yard at Marion and it all fell
> through when the company requested inclusion in Con Rail (as it
> was known then).  That resulted in a lot of jobs lost in Marion.  I'm
> not sure the town was happy about loosing the shops and the yard.
>
> Ed Montgomery
>
>

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