Re: (erielack) CWR on the EL

[Charles_Walsh_@_Berlex.com]

Paul,

I'm curious if you know whether the EL was welding the rail in place, or
bringing in the quarter-mile sections and welding (necessitating a welding
train).  I don't recall EL ever having a welding train.

Chuck



                                                                           
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Numerous stretches on the heavier-trafficked track 2 on the Southern Tier
between Hornell and Bingo dating from at least 1968, Stretches on the
Buffalo line Bfo-Hornell, the single track west of Meadville, portions of
the former Big Four track on the shared trackage Marion-Galion. None of it
pre-EL, AFAIK. An incomplete list but you get the idea. Discrete portions
as finances allowed, but not entire divisions. IIRC the first ever US
installation of cwr was on D&H in the Schenectady area in the 1930's. Close
to HQ I imagine so they could keep an eye on it. Some of the portions in
the Poconos you mentioned were laid in '73-'74 only to be taken up by CR in
1977 for relay on the former Delaware division.

Paul B

From: Charles_Walsh_@_Berlex.com
Subject: (erielack) CWR on the EL

I was wondering if anyone knows to what extent the EL used continuous
welded rail on its lines?  I know about some of the cwr that was laid
between the Water Gap and Scranton (primarily on curves, I believe), but
I'm wondering where else it might have been laid?  And did the DL&W and/or
ERIE lay any cwr prior to the merger?


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