Re: (erielack) Trainmaster Tribute

[Dlw1el2_@_aol.com]

In a message dated 5/8/2001 10:42:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
LARSONMA_@_apci.com writes:


> One of the b&w photos shows 10 Erie Lackawanna TMs
> (#850-859) rounding a curve in Binghampton, N.Y. on June 24, 1968. They are
> being led PA unit #852 en route to an equipment dealer. What an impressive
> lineup! Does anyone have a scanned copy of this photo? Anybody have the FM
> brochure?
> 

Marty
I have seen the article, and all the photos you are referring to. Probable my 
second all time favorite article.  I also have the brochure you are referring 
to.  I missed seeing them at Port Morris by a few days. They went down the P 
Burg line, and then on to Allentown yard before heading to Baltimore.  There 
are commercial slides available of all ten of them sitting in the middle of 
Allentown yard, from up on the Hill.

With the knowledge of missing all of the original ten, and knowing that 1860 
was sitting at Hornell NY  out of service, a school friend and I did the next 
best thing that year. Hornell NY might as well been Montana as far as 
borrowing my parents car, so 
an open Box Car out of Port Jervis became our transportation to a place I had 
never 
been before.  It's a long story, but my first photo's of a Lackawanna ( Erie 
Lackawanna painted) Trainmaster were had, and I cherish the memories, and the 
photos I got inside the shops on that trip.

That was the easy part.  Getting home proved to be a little more difficult.

Bob

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