Re: (erielack) A controversial topic? :) - EL employee integration

["Bruce Ipe" <bruceipe_@_gmail.com>]

No, Reply to All should be to  the list. Reply should be to the writer.  JB
Ipe

On 2/19/07, Richard Pennisi <eldispatcher72_@_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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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