RE: (erielack) What Locals Called the Railroads

[Ken <lackawanna_@_iname.com>]

This past April, my professional society held a conference in Mahwah, and I=
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asked someone at the company which hosted the conference how far the=20
Sheraton Hotel was from the Erie station.  She had no idea of what I=20
meant.  She said that there was an NJ Transit station about 1=BD miles away,=
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though.  And she was in her 50's and a lifelong Mahwah resident.

How quickly people forget!

Ken Bush (pronounced the same way as the President pronounces it)



At 11:42 AM 1/28/02 -0500, Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul) wrote:
>Alan Samostie wrote:
>
> > Although many commuters hated them, the electric MU cars kept
> > the EL name alive in North Jersey years after the railroad
> > itself was gone.
> > (Many of the push-pull coaches and U34CHs still had EL logos,
> > but never bore the EL name).  Until NJT became firmly
> > established, radio announcers still referred to the former EL
> > commuter lines as EL.
>
>The EL MU cars rolled right until retirement wearing full ERIE LACKAWANNA
>lettering and numbers (with the few that got the red or orange paint). The
>Comet I coaches and U-boats wore EL logos until around 1983 or 1984 -=
 pretty
>odd considering the railroad ceased to exist 7 years earlier!
>
>Growing up in Boonton, all my family friends and neighbors called the
>railroad (even well into the 1990s) as "the Erie Lackawanna." Only recently
>do people call it "NJ Transit," but there are still a lot of folks who call
>it the "Lackawanna" or "Erie Lackawanna." It shows you what kind of lasting
>impression the railroad made!
>
>         - Paul

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