Re: (erielack) Happy Erie Lackawanna Day!(2)

["Rich Behrendt" <rbehrendt_@_columbus.rr.com>]

Like many of you from North Jersey, my first recollections are of the 
Caldwell Branch while living in Verona in the late 1960's/early 1970's - I 
remember the wig-way on Fairview Ave. and the Silver Lake drills delivering 
boxcars to Bahr Lumber and West Essex Lumber in Verona, which towards the 
end were the only regular consignees on the branch -

'The Erie Lackawanna Story' was my first big book purchase which 
familiarized me to the rest of the EL system via photos - after a few years 
of practicing on the Caldwell Branch, early photography shifted to Great 
Notch in conjunction w/acquisition of a driver's license and the discovery 
of long-haul freights on the Boonton Line/Greenwood Lake line.

After high school graduation in '76, it was off to Ohio for college, which I 
looked forward to, since this was Alco country.  By then, CR was starting 
out, but alot of EL still existed through the late 1970's, and I was 
fortunate to be able to see and photograph EL Alco's still in action at 
Brier Hill, Akron and Cleveland  before consolidation and elimination of CR 
assets starting taking hold in the early 1980's...

Rich Behrendt
ELHS #384
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Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:18 AM
Subject: (erielack) Happy Erie Lackawanna Day!


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> Steve,
> Thanks for the reminder. Suppose in honor of our beloved RR, today each 
> one of us share just one thing about the EL that sticks in our minds the 
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> Mine would be growing up in Wayne, NJ, hearing the RS3's throttle up 
> westbound out of Mt. View station and then coast behind my house with the 
> clickity-clank of a string of coaches behind, I can hear it to this day.
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> Fred Stratton
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> MP. 7.2 NS Asheville line
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> Salisbury, NC
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