Re: (erielack) What People Called the Railroad

[Peter Heimbach <plh_@_intac.com>]

Rusty granddad is a man after my heart.

I grew up in Basking Ridge, NJ on the P& D branch of the DL&W.  It was
always called the Lackawanna.

After the merger and they started painting erie in front of Lackawanna on
the MU's it was an aberration to Lackawanna fans.

It was always the Lackawanna and never the Erie Lackawanna.

Pete

Rusty Recordon wrote:

> Listers,
>
> To add to the discussion of this vital topic, My grandfather (born 1880)
> was a traveling salesman out of Owego, NY from about 1912 until late in
> the depression (36-37).  He always called the Erie, "The Dirtyolderie,"
> (yes, as one word).
>
> The DL&W was always "The Lackawanna", though most others I remember as a
> child called it the "DL".  He preferred to travel the Lackawanna until
> the day he died.=20
>
> When my mother was traveling from Owego to San Diego, CA in 1942 to
> marry my naval father, granddad insisted that she ride the
> Lackawanna/NKP route to Chicago rather than the Erie. He booked her
> coach to Chicago and Santa Fe lower section to Los Angeles. She shared
> the lower with the mid-western wife of one of Dad's Navy buddies, who
> joined the safari in Chicago, this being wartime and accommodations hard
> to come by.
>
> He was a man of travel experience and his convictions.  Hence in my
> post-war journeys as a child form NYC to Owego I never rode the
> Dirtyolderie.
>
> Rusty Recordon

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