Chuck Walsh asked: > Any idea how long CS-9 and IHB-7 continued to operate after > April Fools Day > 1976? I have shots of both trains running until at least the beginning of 1977. I think IHB-7 was just a train that was thrown onto the DL&W side just to give it some traffic; I think rerouting it to other lines was a simple task. CS-9's "raison d'etre" kinda disappeared with the CR merger. Scranton's importance as a major division point was significantly reduced under CR, and towards the end, the train did little work. Here's what I think it did: * Dropped cars off at Great Notch for the Greenwood Lake Haul (did it do this in CR years?) * Dropped off "water bottle" cars for Drew at Boonton * Made setouts at East Dover? * Made setouts at Portland, PA? Not much work there. After CS-9 disappeared, did the Boonton Drill simply handle these cars? (since Drew was in operation until at least 1980) - Paul The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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