Re: (erielack) Erie Steam

[Bruce Ipe <bruceipe_@_gmail.com>]

I recall Erie steam at the passenger station in Youngstown, Ohio in
the 1940s and 1950. My father and I visited the station from time to
time when we were in downtown. My most vivid memory is of an Erie
steam locomotive headed east. The drive wheels were taller and I and
steam seemed to hiss out from mystical locations around the wheels. It
was most like a monster breathing and hissing. quite a frightful and
magnificent thing. As it departed the station, it exuded three long
"choos" then about four or five short "choos". A real beast

JB Ipe




On 8/23/05, RJFlei_@_aol.com <RJFlei@aol.com> wrote:
> List,
> 
> By the time I came along (almost 1953), Erie steam was prettymuch gone. I do
> remember one possible encounter with Erie steam. I have some doubts.
> 
> I was very young and we were on our way to my grandmother's house in
> Cleveland. Back then we always took the Ohio Turnpike. The Turnpike crossed over the
> Erie mains on a bridge near Freedom hill, that's not far from SR. 534, also
> near where the Trumbull County Soap Box Derby was held in it's later years.
> 
> While we were travelling west, my dad pointed out a billow of smoke coming
> from a westbound train that had just passed underneath us, and said there was a
> steam engine on the train. I suppose I was 3 or 4 at the time. That would have
> made it about 1956 or later.
> 
> Could this have been a B&O steam powered freight detouring over the Erie?
> Seems a little late to be Erie steam.
> 
> Used to see B&O steam all the time up till I was about 5 years old. Living in
> Warren, Oh. we used to see live and dead B&O steam going up the B&O's Lake
> Branch. Still remember hearing those chuffing engines, even the dead ones.
> Evidently,  some engines still had their rods connected.
> 
> The dead engines were on there way to Luntz Iron and Steel between Warren and
> Champion. After they were cut up, the scap was sold to Copperweld Steel right
> next door.
> 
> Neither Luntz or Copperweld still exist in the Warren area. Copperweld
> falling victim to unfair foreign competition with about 2,500 jobs lost, no longer
> needs scrap steel from Luntz.
> 
> Rick Fleischer
> Cortland, Oh.
> 
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