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RE: (erielack) Tutti Frutti Oh Rudy, Erie Style
FYI, Granton Jct was closed....burned out or whatever...........When I
fired the Northern trainis in 1961-62, it was pointed out to me as the
pllace where the Susquehanna trains diverted to their own tracks.
Walt Smith
>From: "JG at graytrainpix" <graytrainpix_@_hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
>To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net, martinpl3@earthlink.net
>Subject: (erielack) Tutti Frutti Oh Rudy, Erie Style
>Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:02:08 -0500
>
>Philip,
>
>I do remember Norman Reddy. He was a big fellow; supposedly his nickname
>down at the dispatchers office was “high and wide”. You’re right, he was a
>bit excitable, although he wasn’t a bad guy after you got used to him. I
>remember working an afternoon trick at DB with Norm at the East End desk,
>and he was asking me about a track foreman. I told him that I had just
>seen the guy driving away from the plant. Then about 5 minutes later, it
>turned out that I got it wrong and the foreman was still around. So I told
>Norman that he was back, and he said “oh good, the second coming of Joe
>Ribando”.
>
>I heard that Norman was one of the first wave of DL&W men who started
>qualifying on the Erie side soon after the merger. Supposedly he was
>working at NX Drawbridge (Newark Branch) when it had a fire. Sidebar,
>there was also a fire at WR West Arlington Tower sometime in the 1960s
>(Norman wasn’t there). I believe that Granton Avenue Tower on the Northern
>Branch also had a fire; I’m unsure if it was still open at the merger.
>
>As to Bookie, he went to Power Control in Cleveland a few years before I
>started.
>
>One correction from my note about Rudy Appeld: the timetable list I
>referred to was for Assistant Chief Train Dispatchers, not Assistant
>Trainmasters.
>
>And while I’m ‘fessing up to my senior moments, Bob Bahrs pointed out that
>I am guilty of what I accused some of the ex-Erie dispatcher guys of doing,
>i.e. requiring mindreading. OK, I sometimes forget to sign my notes to the
>list. So in the interest of full disclosure, I am . . . .
>
>James Gerofsky
>a.k.a. Jim G.
>a.k.a. JG at graytrainpix
>graytrainpix being my railroad web site, which is:
>www.geocities.com/graytrainpix
>
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