Re: (erielack) Western Meeting? West end helpers?(2)

["Rich Behrendt" <rbehrendt_@_columbus.rr.com>]

Mike,
To answer your first question is 'probably'...I talked w/Joe Schveder 
tonight, who has tentatively lined up a meeting at the Italian/American club 
in Ravenna, and is finishing up final details on the meal and 
entertainment - no firm date yet, but most likley early April - we'll 
announce details once we finalize everything...

To answer your second question, and speaking of what I know of parts of the 
Mahoning in/around Youngstown westward to Ken, I'm not aware of any pushers 
in regular service there, although someone like Steve T. might shed some 
further light on operations...

Further west, I know the EL did have to push an occassional freight up over 
Wadsworth hill/Silver Creek, plus there was some grades between Mansfield 
and Ashland that also resulted in need of pusher power...

Rich Behrendt
ELHS #384
- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Spinelli" <idrsspin_@_yahoo.com>
To: "EL Mail list" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 1:46 PM
Subject: (erielack) Western Meeting? West end helpers?


>
> Hello,
>
> Hope everyone had a great holiday season.
>
> First question, is there going to be a Western Spring Meeting this year?
>
> Second, were there ever helpers on the Kent and Mahoning Divisions? I know 
> power
> was added, or cars taken off at each end (Marion, Meadville), but where 
> there
> ever helpers on either division? Even with those measures, heavy trains 
> crawled,
> and sometimes stalled and doubled certain hills. It's one of those 
> questions I
> was always afraid to ask...
> Mike Spinelli
>
>
>
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