(erielack) Travelling to work

["Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>]

As I understand it, Paul, after the crew districts were extended (late
60's?) they were Cx-Port, Port-Hornell on the Erie side (running thru
Susquehanna), and Cx-Scranton, Scranton-Hornell on the DL&W (had been
Elmira). The road crews were based at Port and Scranton, while Cx-based
crews mostly worked the locals etc. I imagine that most of the Port-based
crews lived in and around Port, and as traffic shifted to the Lackawanna
side some probably commuted to Scranton. Some Scranton crews qualified on
the Erie side and vice-versa, so if they were short of crews in Port, a
Scranton crew would get taxi'd over the mountain. Availability of crews at
Cx would often determine call times of non-priority trains and whether they
were routed via Port or Scranton. The extra personnel you see may have been
deadheading or the "full-crew" brakeman sleeping on his featherbed.
Sometimes it looked like you had enough folks on the headend for a
basketball team.

Paul B

From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>
Subject: RE: (erielack) Traveling to work (was: Calendar time)

This topic brings up something I've always wondered. Crews would take trains
up to crew change points. I assume that leaving Croxton, crews on the DL
side would change at... Scranton?  And on the Erie side, they'd change at
Port Jervis. So... would they just wait for the next eastbound train? Would
they just dead-head, or would they take another train back if it was
available?

I always wondered this because in many EL videos, you can see crew members
riding the trailing units - often times, you'd see folks in 3 or 4 cabs per
train!

- - Paul



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