Re: (erielack) Calendar time

["Tom Beckett" <tabeckett_@_stny.rr.com>]

I don't recall now when he hired on, but I think it was some time in the mid 
60s. That would make his opportunities for travel on EL's passenger trains 
rather limited. I'm not sure I'd want to chance missing the call by relying 
on freights. He would have gotten either one in Wavely in any event. His 
stories of close calls always involved  travel down the road along the 
Canisteo at harrowing speeds never meant to be attained on that road. I 
don't know what he did in the bad weather. That would have posed a serious 
problem here in the winter.

I imagine Walt Smith has some insight on this topic-he had some stories 
about going to Hoboken and other reporting locations that were pretty 
interesting.

Tom B

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Charles_Walsh_@_Berlex.com>
To: "Tom Beckett" <tabeckett_@_stny.rr.com>
Cc: <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>; <erielack-owner@lists.elhts.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: (erielack) Calendar time


>
> Tom,
>
> I imagine that bad weather (i.e. snow/sleet) could make life miserable for
> a crew member with a long commute and short notice.  I wonder if the
> engineer you speak of, in former times, could/would have used passenger
> service between Sayre and Hornell.  I know that into the 80s and 90s there
> were a few EL/DL&W guys who worked with NJ Transit and who lived in the
> Poconos.  I guess it's possible that they moved there later on, but they
> may have also been there since the 50s and 60s when you could "still get
> there" into NJ by train.
>
> I'm wondering how many members of this list commuted by train to their
> reporting point on the railroad.
>
> Chuck 


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