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 The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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