RE: (erielack) Special Day? What if?

["Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>]

Chuck Walsh wrote:


> Yep.  We're looking at the same map...and west of Binghamton, 
> as a result
> of the EL merger, what wasn't abandoned outright on the DL&W side was
> eventually downgraded to branch status during the early EL 
> years (that's
> about 200 miles of a 396 mile mainline).

Wasn't htis process started pre-merger, when the Erie and DL&W consolidated their lines? Remember - the DL&W was beginning to struggle, with consolidation and single-tracking (think Cut-Off) the result of that. All the EL merger did is make it easier to "rationalize."  Even without the merger, you would have seen the Lackawanna chopping to save $$$.



> In addition, the 
> Garret Mountain
> section of the Boonton Line that you refer to, as well as the 
> mainline west
> of Vestal, NY were sold off to the states of New Jersey and 
> New York to
> become parts of Route I-80 and NY-17, respectively...for 
> which the railroad
> was compensated.


But once again, the EL merger had no bearing on this, either.

By the way, at least one person came up with a way to "resurrect the DL&W" - read Steve Kay's "Background history" of his HO scale Lackawanna Terminal Railway here to see how he addressed restoring the DL&W:

http://www.ltths.org/lack.html

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