Re: (erielack) Happy Erie Lackawanna Day!

[Charles_Walsh_@_Berlex.com]

Steve,

It was in that timeframe, although this was on a Saturday, and I don't
recall many freights--certainly no long freights--being run on a Saturday
through the Oranges.  From what I can recall, there were five units up
front and 150-155 cars trailing.  The cars were a mixture of everything:
coal cars, boxcars, tank cars, gons, etc.  The racket that the sections of
coal cars made on the stick rail was deafening.  The only racket that I can
recall that was any louder was sitting several miles west of Clarks Summit
on a Steamtown run with a then-D&H freight passing on the adjacent track,
on a warm day with the windows wide open.  I've been to rock concerts that
were quiet compared to the din that day.

Chuck



                                                                           
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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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