One very tight relationship was between the Erie and the D&H on the Jefferson Railroad between Jefferson Jct and West Carbondale, PA. The Erie built it with financial support from the D&H. Erie owned and maintained it until it was sold to the D&H in 1955, but the D&H dispatched it from Carbondale. Both railroads once ran passenger service on the Jeff, with the Erie running between Susquehanna and Carbondale, and the D&H between Wilkes-Barre and Nineveh. Both railroads showed each others' trains in their public timetables. Even after the D&H bought the line, the local service was provided by Erie/EL/Conrail until it was abandoned when the D&H bought the former DL&W from Binghamton to Scranton. The agency at Thompson was an EL office right up to the end, even though the D&H maintained the building and used part of it as the track tool house. The Erie operated on the D&H from West Carbondale to Union Jct, where they got onto the CNJ and ran into Ashley for CNJ interchange. Erie and EL interchanged with the Reading at Newberry Jct. The train was operated out of Corning (Gang Mills) by New York Central (Fall Brook) crews using Erie/EL power and caboose. That ended in 1969, after Penn Central was formed, and the interchange moved to Rupert on the Bloomsburg Branch. Gordon Davids Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:23:07 -0500 From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com> Subject: (erielack) CNJ... how about others? Hi folks, In an effort to expand the geographic scope of this operation, were there any other areas where EL had tight-knit relationships with other roads? The CNJ-EL joint trains are obvious, but what else was there? Another obvious thought that comes to mind were the Penn Central runthroughts on the Port Jervis-Maybrook trains (NE-74, I think?) And once upon a time, there were the joint Erie-P&LE passenger trains from Pittsburgh-Cleveland. Were there any other relationships west of Binghamton with other roads, or were they just simply interchange partners? - - Paul The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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