Yes They had one too many 40 oz's and dreamed up this trip as in "I DREAM OF CUT-OFF!! secbyte_@_ptd.net wrote: Did they go all the way to Scranton? I wonder what the criteria was for that decision. I guess it had to be the physical track and stations as they went all the way to sending a train over it. I wonder would it be like NEC as Amtrak owned property/track or would Conrail then retain ownership like Amtrak uses south of Washington. Ah what could have been..... George Bill Herkner wrote: > Bob Yanosey has a picture of the last train. He and I were on it. Amtrak > ran it to satisfy themselves that the route, at that time, was not a > candidate for intercity service. The train had to maneuver through the yard > and out the west leg of the wye because Conrail had removed a section of > rail so a straight move could not be made to and from the cutoff. > Bill Herkner > > > > - -- Okay. Here we go. Focus. Speed. I am speed. One winner. 42 losers. I eat losers for breakfast. Breakfast? Maybe I should have had breakfast? Brekkie could be good for me. No no no. Focus. Speed. Faster than fast, quicker than quick. I am Lightning....... The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org To Unsubscribe: http://lists.elhts.org/erielackunsub.html - --------------------------------- Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org To Unsubscribe: http://lists.elhts.org/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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