Re: (erielack) What Locals Called the Railroads

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

I have a feeling that to most people who were not connected with railroad in
some way, or not in a town where the railroad dominates, it's just "the
train station". If she was 50-ish, she would have been about 10 at the time
of the EL merger, late 20s, maybe 30 at the time Conrail was formed, so
remembering the Erie may have been a stretch. Seems to me, once railroads
got out of the passenger business, there was not the incentive to remain in
the public eye, and indeed, many did a good job of keeping a low profile. I
don't know if EL was one of those, but it also seems to me they'd be hard to
ignore in the commuter zone, where delay reports are heard twice daily. Keep
in mind also, NJ Transit has done a fairly good job of creating "brand
recognition". But then, many people just aren't paying attention to such
things.

TAB
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken" <lackawanna_@_iname.com>
To: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>; "'A Samostie'"
<quahog_@_sprint.ca>; <erielack@lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 5:44 AM
Subject: RE: (erielack) What Locals Called the Railroads


This past April, my professional society held a conference in Mahwah, and I
asked someone at the company which hosted the conference how far the
Sheraton Hotel was from the Erie station.  She had no idea of what I
meant.  She said that there was an NJ Transit station about 1½ miles away,
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)

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