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Re: (erielack) Erie, Lackawanna, and NKP 1881-83
U say u migrated to the South..........Florida perhaps????????? I'm
always lookiing for folks from the EL to come to the NRHS chapter meetings
here. Are u in the area???
Walt Smith in Melbourne, Fl....... I almost typed in Youngstown (where I
started on the former ERIE in 1959 after being discharged from the USAF at
Vienna, Ohio.
Walt Smith
>From: eljefe3126_@_netscape.net
>Reply-To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
>To: erielack_@_lists.elhts.org
>Subject: Re: (erielack) Erie, Lackawanna, and NKP 1881-83
>Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:07:20 -0500
>
>Phillip,
>
>You get a distorted view of EL's relationship with Youngstown if you look
>at the city today without an appreciation for what's changed since EL days.
> Back in 1977, the largest employer in town was Youngstown Sheet and Tube,
>which had one set of mills on the north side of town (Briar Hill Works)
>that stretched for miles, and an even larger set on the south side of town
>(Campbell Works). There were many other manufacturing concerns as well,
>steel mills and steel product fabricators. The EL shipped in iron ore to
>the Youngstown-Warren area by the trainload.
>
>All that's gone now, including much of the EL 1st Subdivision from
>Cleveland to Youngstown. The largest employer in town is Youngstown State
>University, followed by the local hospital system and local government.
>The EL used to run through the downtown area (and the old EL passenger
>station is still there, although there are no longer tracks beside it.)
>The area's population has dropped as thousands of people have migrated from
>the rust belt to the sun belt (yours truly among them). Literally miles of
>factories have been flattened and carted away.
>
>Think of it as an area that should have turned into a ghost town but has
>somehow managed to hang on, and it should make more sense to you.
>
>Jeff Larson
>ELHS #2683
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: martinpl3_@_earthlink.net
>To: erielack_@_lists.elhts.org
>Sent: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:50 AM
>Subject: RE: (erielack) Erie, Lackawanna, and NKP 1881-83
>
>
>(snip)
>I spent about an hour Sunday morning, looking around Youngstown. It's one
>of those funny citys with apparently not many people in it, buildings that
>look burned out; but also with an impressive center street. I got a look
>at the B&O Station Restaurant, a nice brick building, with a car port at
>the front entrance like Madison's, and a small spot for Amtrak parking,
>with Amtrak's phone number posted. I took a look in Amtrak's folder, and
>it doesn't go toYoungstown anymore.
>Philip Martin
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