Re: (erielack) FW: Fantrips - Erie, DL&W, CNJ and a few others

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

I note most of those trips had gondolas on them. It must have been quite a 
thrill riding in a gon at speed on the Cutoff!!

White pants in a gon on a steam trip?? You're quite the optimist!! :-)

Tom B

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul R. Tupaczewski" <paultup_@_optonline.net>
To: <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:47 PM
Subject: (erielack) FW: Fantrips - Erie, DL&W, CNJ and a few others


> From Ed Weber, via Jim Dent - "old school" fan trips! :)
>
> - Paul
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Dent [mailto:jdent1_@_optonline.net]
>
> Paul,
>
> I don't know if you want all of this on the EL list so I'll send it to you
> to decide.
>
> Jim Dent
>
>
> I sent an email to Ed Weber with a copy of your EL fan trip listing.
> Ed's reply follows:
>
> "Jim, I moved to Pittsburgh in 1956, so I know nothing about the trips (on
> Paul's list).  However, I'm attaching the list of fantrips I rode."
>
> June 22, 1952 Sponsored by the Railroad Enthusiasts
>
> Erie's farewell to steam
> Erie Jersey City to Carbondale, Pa. via the Graham Line. Photo stops when
> the locomotive took water at MQ East, east of Campbell Hall, NY, and at 
> the
> Starrucca Viaduct.  The train stopped at Carbondale, but it was not a 
> photo
> stop, except for the few of us who prudently walked at a fast pace to
> photograph D&H steam while keeping the train in sight.
> Some fans missed the train when it left and we waved goodbye to them from
> the gondola.
> D&H and Erie Carbondale to Dunmore, then over the Erie's Wyoming Division 
> to
> Lackawaxen and back to Jersey City on the main line Locomotive was 2944, a
> Pacific, from Jersey City to Port Jervis and return. West of Port Jervis 
> the
> trip was diesel powered.
> Gondola at the rear end
>
> (This trip is pictured in the Morning Sun book, "Erie Railroad Trackside
> with Robert F. Collins" on page 93.  Ed has previously told me that he is 
> in
> Bob Collins picture on Starrucca Viaduct - right in the center of the rear
> of the gondola wearing white pants with a brown jacket and cap.
> - Jim) 



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