(erielack) EL Interchanges with the Chessie System

["R.M.\"Rich\" Tubbs" <rtubbs_@_acc-net.com>]

Marion had a very active interchange with the C&O and later, Chessie. 
Usually, there was at least one "C&O run" made each day, usually about 9pm. 
One or two RS's would pull the cut back toward AC tower to the C&O lead. 
Usually had 20-30 cars and quite a mixture of car types. Some days, there 
would be sufficient cars in the yard for interchange which would require a 
morning interchange run. Seems like we had more cars going TO the Chessie 
than we pulled back. Also, during fall harvest season, there was always a 
lot of grain traffic routed to Toledo for loading onto ships for export. 
This interchange traffic was apparently very important to the brass in 
Cleveland because we had to report the times of the moves, numbers of 
loads/mtys and tonnages every morning via teletype to CD.

                                     Rich Tubbs
                                     Marion, OH
                                    ELHS #1226
                          Former EL Tower Operator
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~tubbs/ErieLackawanna/

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Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 08:41:54 EDT
From: ErieRailroad_@_aol.com
Subject: (erielack) EL Interchanges with the Chessie System

Hi,

Did the EL ever interchange with the Chessie System? If so, what locations?

Jack 

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