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Well Ron Dukarm has done it again! As some may remember, Ron mentioned 
he and I were working on adding additional material about the Erie's 
Rochester to Mt. Morris electrification to be added to the ELHS web 
site. I am happy to announce the project has been completed and is 
available now for ELHS members.

We have added 24 images, six maps and a reprint of an article which 
originally appeared in the October 1926 Erie's employee magazine. The 
images comprise about a dozen supplied by Ron, most of which were taken 
by the photographer documenting the project so they are not your usual 
views. To this I added images which are in the Syracuse University Erie 
negative collection for the stations from Rochester to Mt. Morris. These 
same SU images also appeared in the "Next Station Will Be...." Volume XI 
book, but significantly more information about the image has been added.

In case you no longer remember how to access the material, please see 
the note at the beginning of the Erie electrification article in the 
last (latest) Diamond (V20N2) on page 24. You will be promoted for your 
user name and password which I am certain everyone remembers. If not, go 
to the ELHS Members Sales page and click the link in the second 
paragraph for information about user ids and passwords:

http://www.erielackhs.org/ELHS/ELHSMemberSales.html

The pages can also be access from the Erie web site section Prototype 
Info link, Along the Right of Way section and clicking the mainline 
link. It's listed under the Rochester Division on the page the link 
takes you to.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Ron Dukarm for his 
continued generosity in sharing photographs and information from his 
collection with ELHS members and much more broadly with just about any 
author or historian who makes a legitimate request. Material from Ron's 
collection has appeared in many books for at least the past 15 years or 
so I have been able to document. We are very fortunate to have people 
like Ron along with the likes of Bill Caloroso and Bob Pastorkey, the 
latter two both ELHS members and photo dealers and both who have very 
generously shared their collections with publishers and historical 
societies as has Ron. Take a minute to thank them next time you see them 
at a train show. They all realize history hoarded is history lost. That 
IS a hint people! :)

Any errors in the captions or maps are my fault alone. If you find an 
error and have supporting documentation to offer to correct it, please 
do email me with the information using the webmaster link at the bottom 
of the Rochester Division Electrification main page.

Also I'd like to announce the creation of a Yahoo! Group for ELHS 
announcements. I strongly urge all ELHS members join the group. It is a 
private group open only to current ELHS members and as such you will 
need to supply your name, address as it appears on your mailed 
publications and your member number when you subscribe. Please allow a 
day or two to verify your information. You will receive a confirming 
email once it has been verified.

What! Another email list! Well first off it will be relatively low 
volume. Also, for the time being it will be used only to send out 
updates relating to the web site and other ELHS related announcements of 
interest only to ELHS members, it will not be a general discussion list. 
If there is enough interest in having one, we can do so in the future. 
For now it is a long overdue way to get out more timely information 
about updates, events, etc., than a quarterly publishing schedule 
allows. Posting ELHS specific information to a general discussion list 
has always be a questionable practice in my mind since it is only of 
interest to part of the list members. Now there is a more appropriate 
place for such information to be disseminated.

To join the group, send an email to:

ELHS-members_announce-subscribe_@_yahoogroups.com

Please remember to include the information requested above. Also, please 
DO NOT email me at this email address about web site or list questions, 
send them to:

webmaster-at-erielackhs.org (replacing the -at- with the @ of course)

  Again, I strongly urge all ELHS members join the group, there are many 
other projects in the works for the web site which I believe you will 
find informative. I also want to take advantage of the group member poll 
feature and the more members there are the more meaningful it will be. 
If you know other ELHS members who are not on this email list but are 
online, please pass the information along to them.

Oh, something else for those not familiar with Yahoo! Groups, you can 
elect to receive individual emails or a digest just as on this list, or 
you can chose a third option to read the posts when you log in to the 
group so you can opt not to receive any email at all if you like. I find 
this latter option very handy myself, but it is only useful if you check 
a group regularly.

Sorry for the long post.

Regards,

Will Shultz
ELHS Webmaster

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