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RE: (erielack) A controversial topic? :) - EL employee integration
Paul and list,
I must add that even after 1970 there were still some pockets of resistance as to the former railroads. Especially the dispatcher's office. The ERIE guys had a tough time with the fact that a former Lackawanna guy, Joe Conboy, was the Chief Train Dispatcher. Afternoons and midnights were still ERIE strongholds as Rudy Appeld on second trick and Fred Spratt on third trick were assistant chiefs. They were both nasty people to work for and with. You had to really keep your nose clean so to speak with both of them.
Rich
"Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
> There are others on our list who can refute this and I'd sure
> > like to hear them tell us otherwise. Anyone out there who
> can tell us
> > if Erie and Lackawanna employees actually put differences
> aside and worked for the success of Erie Lackawanna?
> >
> > That's a story that as far as I know has yet to be told.
I'd be curious to hear this myself. There are a number of EL employees
on this list, care to elaborate?
From a cursory overview of the folks I know, it seemed that the "old
timers" coming into the EL had some friction with "the other guy's
road". Stuff like this comes through when you talk to old-timers - when
Bob Collins commented on a model DL&W E8's "fairy girl colors" and other
little jabs at the other side. But it appeared that the younger guys on
the road didn't seem to have any preconceived notions about predecessor
allegiances. From all the stories I've heard, by the end of the EL it
was pretty much one big happy family, with the usual "interesting
people" that any railroad tends to have.
And from a railfan's perspective, I have heard time and again about what
a friendly road the EL was. A buddy of mine went up to Bison Yard one
time, and was stopped by an EL employee. He thought he was going to be
read the riot act, but instead the employee gave him a train line up and
offered to give him a ride on any of the trains leaving town that day!
- - Paul
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