Re: Is the Erie east of Bingo next? Re: (erielack) NS Buffalo LineChanges

["Tom Beckett" <tabeckett_@_stny.rr.com>]

Those NS units you see on the CP south of Binghamton are D&H(oops...CP)
trains with run through power. That will change with the new arrangement
recently filed with the STB. They'll actually be NS trains on trackage
rights.

In the recent discussion we were talking about NYSW rights in a "what if"
kind of situation which did an end run around the NS using a variety of
regionals to get from Jersey to the midwest.

TAB
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "John Meck" <j_meck_@_gpinet.com>
To: <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 9:43 AM
Subject: RE: Is the Erie east of Bingo next? Re: (erielack) NS Buffalo
LineChanges


> Didn't Norfolk Southern already get trackage rights over CP from Scranton
to
> Binghamton? I'll have to check the Archives, but I thought there was a
> thread about this about a week or so ago.
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: erielack-owner_@_lists.railfan.net
> [mailto:erielack-owner_@_lists.railfan.net]On Behalf Of Tom Beckett
> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 9:12 AM
> To: Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul); intercityrailpal_@_netscape.net;
> erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: Re: Is the Erie east of Bingo next? Re: (erielack) NS Buffalo
> LineChanges
>
>
> Rights over CP Binghamton-Scranton would be the logical answer, and the
only
> practical answer. I suppose one could put together a Waverly-Scranton
> routing involving the ex-LV and the DL&W Bloomsburg line, but that's not
> really practical-it's roundabout, and those tracks are in rough shape. I
was
> thinking more along the lines of NYSW from Bingo to Little Ferry-we ARE
> trying to keep the Erie open east of Binghamton!! But it would depend on
> your ultimate destination in the north or central Jersey area. I agree it
is
> interesting and encouraging to see the DLW come back to life. Perhaps the
EL
> was just 40 years ahead of its time!!
>
> Tom B
>
> > I was thinking the same thing! It's the new Millenium version of the
> "Alphabet Route": G&W-WNY&P-NYS&W-GVT-M&E!
> >
> > No one has yet answered how traffic will get from Scranton to Bingo,
> though. Trackage rights over CP?
> >
> > When one sits back and looks at all that is happening today with the
> existing DL&W and Erie lines, it's still pretty impressive (particularly
the
> DL&W side)
> >
> > - Paul
> >
>
>

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