> I was in 6th grade that year and when I came home from school > I remember my mom turning on the TV and WNBC channel 4 had an > airphoto of the wreck scene. My dad came home from work (on > the EL) and said he heard about it. That night my plder > brother drove us out to Dover to see the wreck. I remember > seeing the overturned passenger cars, the basically > decapitated RS unit and the Geep which was numbered in the > 1400 series. There was also some Cat bulldozers there and > some cranes I think. I was only 11 but remember it well to > this day. The next day there was a photo in the NY Daily News > with a small story about it. The engineer's name was > Archibald Spear and he was soon to be up for retirement. Our > 8MM home movies we took didn't come out except for when > someone took a flash shot, or when you see the numberboard > for the geep. Wow, has it been that long ago? Don't forget, there are two articles from Scott Lupia's collection on the list "photo archives" page at: http://el-list.elhts.org/archives/article1.jpg and http://el-list.elhts.org/archives/article4.jpg The article photos confirms what I thought - the RS2 was head out, the GP7 trailed. - Paul The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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