Re: (erielack) Happy Erie Lackawanna Day!

[Njricky2_@_aol.com]

In a message dated 10/17/06 8:14:33 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
paultup_@_lucent.com writes:
 
My remembrance is two-fold. As kids in Scranton, three of us had scrapbooks  
that were comprised of newspaper articles of anything that was about the then  
roads that served Scranton, Erie, DL&W, D&H, CNJ, etc. NYO&W had  passed on a 
few years before.
 
When the merger came, we as kids decided that we should "merge" our  
scrapbooks. It took many hours of negotiation to combine what we had and we  weren't 
happy about it. We did it in the end. I still have the "merged"  scrapbooks at 
my house up in Scranton. We were kids then and emotions ran  high.
 
The other side of this two-fold remembrance is when the three of  us went 
downtown and saw Erie SWs for the first time in our lives (we had  Geeps on the 
Scranton Branch) in the Lackawanna Yard.  
 
We saw Erie and Lackawanna side by side in their independent paint.  What a 
sight that was. We knew then that times had changed and that we had to  change 
with the times. To see both roads, side by side in independent paint was  
extremely special. It really made a statement.
 
Our combined Erie Lackawanna had a somewhat short life as we know. But for  
us three friends in Scranton, as we went our separate ways in life, we had our  
Erie Lackawanna. On that, we finally agreed.
 
Rick
 

>  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  most.

Oddly enough, mine isn't the sight of a giant freight train, but  getting 
stopped (almost every time) at the grade crossing on Division Street  in Boonton, 
NJ by an EL GP7 switching out tank cars of vegetable oil at the  massive Drew 
Chemical (well, it was PVO International by that point, but old  names die 
hard!) facility. The bright GMY diesel really stood out among  strings of black 
tank cars, and it certainly seems the Boonton Drill (1st  Boonton, that is) 
kept busy around the Drew plant for most of the  afternoon.

- - Paul

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