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RE: (erielack) The Diamond and the Lake Cities
Think you have it bad, in the corridor, Tim? My train #41 to Chicago. (I was comming back from the EL New Jersey meet last month) Left Newark out of many food iteams! My fare to Iowa, first class round trip was over $700.00
We know Amtrak's problems...But as much as we love the Erie. Remember the Erie took a million dollars worth of mail revenue off the Lake Cities and put it on freight.Where, after a few years, the trucks finally got it.
It just boils down to this, the Erie-Lackawanna could not fight the Highway Lobby, in Washington. They tryied to join them, with autos on fast freights. But in the end, we have no Erie-Lackawanna. Last week Congress just spent an other 27 billion on roads! Is today's Amtrak train to Michigan...called the Lake Cities, next to die? ...Lackawanna Lance
P.S. I'm leaving on Thursday's California Zephyr and Late For Sure Limited(Lake Shore Limited) for fantrips this weekend out of Syracuse. I hope to ride Ontrack again too. Then rent a car and railfan my way to New Jersey.I also want to explore Oswego, New York.
"TIMOTHY O. STUY" <njmidland_@_compuserve.com> wrote:
>One interesting thing in this article that was discussed on the list
>before: turning the diner at Marion instead of Huntington. It makes sense
>that they pulled it at Marion when the train was running late. From my
>research at the end the only commisary was in Hoboken. They apparently
>stocked the car to handle a Hoboken-Huntington round trip. However,
>several locations along the line were authorized to buy supplies locally to
>restock if they ran short. A far cry from today's Amtrak where they run
>out of food somewhere between Wilmington and Baltimore on a Boston to
>Washington trip.
>
>Tim
>
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