They sure had a big one in Syracuse when a boxcar got away form near Jamesville and made it all the way to Syracuse passenger station, knocking the station job (an Alco HH660) down into the street below. When I worked the Jamesville turn & ran the engine, the oldhead engineers would carefully instruct me in keeping the Solvay stone cars under control down the hill. Regards, Walt Smith >From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_alcatel-lucent.com> >Reply-To: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_alcatel-lucent.com> >To: <Charles_Walsh_@_Berlex.com> >CC: "EL List" <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>, <erielack-owner@lists.elhts.org>, > "Gary R. Kazin" <gkazin_@_yahoo.com> >Subject: (erielack) High points and runaways... >Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:56:20 -0600 > > > I guess that begs the question of how many runaways from Port > > Morris there were in the DL&W years? I can think of only one > > off the top of my head: > > the 1958(?) string of cars that got loose on the wye and > > travelled all the way to Point of Gap. > > >Speaking of runaways, there are other "high points" on EL lines where >I've wondered if runaways have happened. One point that springs to mind >is the tiny yard at Great Notch, NJ. Have any cars ever slipped out of >here and gone down the line? > >Where else on the former EL have runaways occurred other than the famous >Port Morris? Have any trains run away coming down the mountains into >either Scranton or Port Jervis? > > - Paul > > The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List > Sponsored by the ELH&TS > http://www.elhts.org _________________________________________________________________ Your Hotmail address already works to sign into Windows Live Messenger! Get it now http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwme0020000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://get.live.com/messenger/overview The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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