Re: (erielack) Special Day?

["Todd Stearns" <toddsyr_@_twcny.rr.com>]

Very good points Peter and I respect your position totally. You state
nothing but fact in the treatment of the ex-DLW people in post-merger times.
Also, nothing but the truth in the Erie's somewhat inept practices. Yes, it
was a black day for the DL&W. However, due to my age, I never knew the DL&W,
only the EL. Hence, it is the EL that I love. The day it was created will
always be a day of celebration for me due to that. Many others too. I will
always respect the DL&W, but will always be grateful for the EL, the road I
grew up near. Yes, without the merger, I would have grown up near the DL&W,
or would I? It just might have faded into oblivion without the merger. That
would have been the true "dark day" in my opinion. Respectfully yours, Todd
K. Stearns

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Heimbach" <plh5_@_charter.net>
To: <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 3:24 PM
Subject: (erielack) Special Day?


> I must honestly disagree that this is a great day.  To me it is a black
day
> in the history of a fine railroad, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
> Railroad.
>
>
>
> Read pages 146, 147 and 148 of "The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Railroad
> in the Twentieth Century, by Taber and Taber.  Here is, to me, a clear
> description of some of what went on and how the Erie executives did not
move
> as previously agreed to.
>
>
>
> "Or as Sam Shoemaker states, in retrospect, that it was a takeover and not
a
> merger.  Lackawanna's operating and maintenance practices and procedures
in
> all departments, without exception were superior to those of Erie and had
> resulted in superior productivity and efficiency statistics.  Lackawanna
was
> a better operated and managed railroad.  Erie personnel were unable to
> accept any Lackawanna practice as better than Erie's and to a tragic
degree
> Lackawanna people, whether supervisors or rank and file were regarded as
> second class citizens.  The effect on morale was immediate.  Erie
> supervision was unable to accomplish anticipated merger savings from
> continued Erie route, facilities, and operating practices on the one hand
> and with Lackawanna routes, facilities, and operating practices being down
> graded, if not abandoned, on the other."
>
>
>
> As I said this is a black day.  None of the RR's in the northeast may have
> lasted, but this wedding accelerated the loss of a really good RR.
>
>
>
> Pete Heimbach
>
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