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Re: (erielack) EL vs. PC



Tim wrote:

> For a little EL content:  the "hero" of this book is Jim McClellan who
> started with the Southern, then NYC/PC, then DOT/USRA and eventually with
> NS.  Jim graciously lent ELDCPS his Erie/DL&W/EL photo collection.  The 
> 2007
> EL calendar has one of his photos - a great shot of 3 Lackawanna
> Trainmasters on the Cutoff just east of Slateford Jct.  IMO the best photo
> in this year's calendar!

I think anyone interested in Twentieth Century Railroad History  ought to 
read Loving's book, along with Richard Saunders "Merging Lines" and "Main 
Lines." The three of them sit togehter, along with "A Passage to Union", 
"Metropolitan Corridor", "Unfinished Business - The Railroad in American 
Life", and "All Aboard -- the Railroad in American Life" (Close titles, two 
takes, somewhat different).

Sometimes when listening to the fans start speculating in "What if" mode on 
E-L (as happens in the hotel bar after the last presentation/clinic at ELHS 
conventions <g>, it would be a far more interesting discussion if 
speculators had a broader understanding of the forces that made the E-L, 
anbd ultimately led to its end . . .

Cheers,
Jim Guthrie 


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