Re: (erielack) Re: UPS Trailers

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

Concerning the abrupt drop in USPS traffic, I do mean abrupt. EL handled 657 USPS trailers in June 1970, and in July it was 140. This indicates a contractual loss as opposed to gradual erosion. Most UPS trailers actually continued to travel on the Erie side, but in 1973 A/CX-99 which carried some of the wb trailers switched to the Lackawanna side, and of course there were frequent detour moves for the other trains.

Paul B 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Fred Stratton 
  To: STEVEZ10_@_aol.com ; doctorpb@bellsouth.net ; erielack@lists.elhts.org 
  Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 5:36 PM
  Subject: Re: (erielack) Re: UPS Trailers


  Steve,

  I know what you mean. How many nights I would lie in bed at home, about 200' from the Boonton Line and hear the last WB passenger train go by. Then it seemed like an endless stream of freights going the other way. It used to put me asleep, music to my ears. I remember in the early 70's while working for Van Raalte Co. in Boonton, I could watch the trains go by from my recieving dept. door. One moring I saw NY 100 go by and raced to the phone to call my dad and let him know it was on the way, I told him "it just passed here dad, so you'll see it soon." His reply, "I know son." He knew where it was before I even saw it. I guess it was his job. :-)







  Fred Stratton

  MP. 7.2 NS Asheville line

  Salisbury, NC


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    From: STEVEZ10_@_aol.com
    Reply-To: STEVEZ10_@_aol.com
    To: erief7_@_msn.com, doctorpb@bellsouth.net, erielack@lists.elhts.org
    Subject: Re: (erielack) Re: UPS Trailers
    Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 15:37:21 EDT
    >
    >In a message dated 10/7/2006 12:08:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
    >erief7_@_msn.com writes:
    >
    >The increase of UPS reliability in getting between the 2 endpoints
    >(Chicago-NY) was at the expense of the USPS and REA. They lost revenue while at this
    >time the UPS was expanding. When I was growing up in northern NJ UPS was
    >mainly on the scale of the USPS and REA, it wasn't until later on that they
    >started getting into the larger trailers from what I can remember.
    >
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    >
    >
    >And to think most of these (Chicago-NY) EL UPS trailer van trains went via
    >Denville, NJ (my old town) in 1975.! Astonishing!
    >Something that will and probably never could be repeated!!
    >
    >
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