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RE: (erielack) A controversial topic? :) - EL employee integration
I agree with Bruce.
SGL
>
> 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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