Fwd: (erielack) new book LA&S RR

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Michael and Russell:
 
In late 1979 I was riding a westbound CR piggyback track from Conway to  
Crestline while qualifying as a train dispatcher on that portion of  Conrail.
 
In the vicinity of Big Prairie, OH I noticed what appeared to be a roadbed  
of a former WYE track and a line going north across the fields.  I  asked 
veteran engineer W H (Bill) Faulds, who was born about 1910-1915 and had  worked 
out of Crestline his entire life for details.  Bill said "It's where  you Boat 
People (as former Erie and EL employees were known) came to interchange  with 
the Standard Railroad of the World".  Nothing there at Custaloga  today, doubt 
if it can even be found on most maps.
 
A half dozen years later, while qualifying some Ashland Southern employees  
on the former EL line from Mansfield to Rittman, I found more trackage in the  
hole at Ashland where the EL operated the LA&S, or LASCO as it was known  
locally.  That trackage may still be there and be in use, I'm not  sure.
 
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List and Russell Hallock - Yes, the LA&S was partly (50%) owned by the Erie. 
  The Book "The Rattlesnake and the Ramsey - The History of the Lorain, 
Ashland & Southern Railroad" (2004, 478 pages) is one of the most through 
coverages of a railroad that i have encountered.  I hope that my own efforts 
in railroad history can be even partly as successful.  William S. Snyder, 
the author, took the time to research any of the archives that have become 
available in the past decade or two and it shows,  Photos, maps, etc. it is 
all here and, as importantly, an understanding of the personalities (the 
Ramsey factor) involved in the promotion and construction of the LA&S.  
Physically the book is impressive, hard cover, slick paper, etc.   I highly 
recommend that book.  It sets a standard for other  railroad books.  M J 
Connor

>From: "Russell Hallock" <rhallock_@_frontiernet.net>
>Reply-To: "Russell Hallock" <rhallock_@_frontiernet.net>
>To: <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
>Subject: (erielack) new book  LA&S RR
>Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:22:21 -0500
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>I saw this book on the Amazon.com site and wondered if anyone had read it.
>The Lorain, Ashland & Southern RR was partly owned by the Erie if I 
>remember
>right.
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>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/customer-images/-/A1BWF3CGK7IY8W/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_name_0/103-5813904-0819028
>
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