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Re: (erielack) Buffalo
Rich,
PM? Where the heck did that come from?? Thanks for pointing out my early morning brain fart.
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Pennisi
To: Paul Brezicki ; EL Mailing List
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: (erielack) Buffalo
Paul,
Pere Marquette was C&O not Wabash.
Rich
Paul Brezicki <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net> wrote:
Rich and Group,
The Buffalo yard situation was quite interesting. There were actually a half dozen "East Buffalo" yards at one time: West Shore's, NYC (Frontier), E Buffalo stock yard (NYC), LV, Erie (SK) and DL&W's. In what now looks like a preview of Dereco coordination, Lackawanna and NKP began planning a joint hump yard in the late 50's, basically a rebuild of DL&W's E Buffalo yard. By the time Bison became fully operational in 1964, the players were EL and N&W. Ironically even though NKP contributed the lion's share of money, it was excluded from using the facility by EL labor opposition; presumably they didn't want to share jobs with NKP people. This was resolved when it became N&W, and former Wabash (Pere Marquette) operations were also incorporated. The former Erie SK yard continued to be used although of course it was downgraded. In 1971 most EL and N&W trackage in the Buffalo area including Bison yard was combined into the Buffalo Terminal Division. Supposedly the hump computer wa!
s never able to fully cope with the prevailing westerly winds coming off L Erie blowing against cars rolling westward down the hump; I wonder if any former EL employees can confirm that.
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