Re: (erielack) Happy Erie Lackawanna Day!

[STEVEZ10_@_aol.com]

In a message dated 10/17/2006 9:34:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
Charles_Walsh_@_berlex.com writes:
My favorite memory---and there are many--was watching the detour of a 150+
car freight over the Morristown Linesometime during the mid- to late-1960s.
(This was a rare event.)  From where I stood trackside in South Orange, NJ,
when the lead units (probably Geeps) had made it past South Orange station
(about a 1/2 mile to the west) the end of the caboose was somewhere upgrade
past Mountain Station (1/4 mile east) and probably past Highland Avenue
(another 1/2 mile east).  The train was so long, and the signal blocks so
short on the M&E, that the train was occupying four and maybe five blocks
simultaneously.

Chuck,

Wow, that must have been a site to see! I have a video in my collection that 
shows a rather long train with a string of tank cars heading west through 
Chatham... That was probably in the late 1960's as well... Could it have been the 
P'burger or another train?

Steve



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