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(erielack) New book with plenty of EL content

List,

Don't recall seeing this brought up, but the new book from The Railroad
Press, "Pennsylvania Railroad Lines West Vol. 2, Pittsburgh and Northeast
Ohio" by Steve Hipes and David Oroszi arrived in my mailbox yesterday.
Independent of the EL content, it's a great book for fans of railroading in
Steel Country and through out western PA and eastern OH.  But honestly, even
in the Pittsburgh to Crestline chapter, it seems as if a page doesn't go by
without mention of the EL.  That chapter has plenty of shots of the tower in
and the joint PRR/Erie station Mansfield but the prize shot for me was of
the PRR tower at Leetonia where the PRR crossed the EL's Niles and Lisbon
Branch.  I've yet to dig into the text but some of the other areas covered
in detail include the Cleveland & Pittsburgh line with mention of C&P
crossing (Erie crossing from the PRR perspective) in Cleveland; The Akron
Branch chapter reveals some nice shots of EL signals near the Akron Freight
house, some EL trains running through Akron where the lines were parallel to
one another and shots of PRR's South Akron yard with some EL freight action
nearby.  Chapter 5, Steel County, is loaded with EL related shots including
some fantastic tower shots at Bruin in Shenango and plenty of PY&A shots
around Youngstown.  The shot of the tower in North Warren with the PY&A
crossing the EL is fabulous.  I'd recommend this book on it's own merits but
there is quite an EL study hidden inside that to me, doubles the worth of
the book.  I'm sure once I actually *read* it instead of drooling over the
photos the value will increase.  Oh, and don't let me forget to mention all
the EL motive power shots from the Conrail days - including a westbound EL
train being routed onto the PRR/Akron/Fort Wayne line to Chicago days into
Conrail at Warwick.  The book covers the period from roughly 1960-1999
(though there are few photos pre-1960).

One other Erie shot of note - a PRR freight in Leetonia with an Erie
passenger excursion down the Niles and Lisbon Branch.  Date was June 1,
1952.  Maybe Steve Timko or someone else can shed light on this (it's
mentioned in Erie Facilities Vol 3 as well) but how often did they run
passenger excursions down the branch?

Steve



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