Interestingly, Conrail kept Port Jervis as a crew change point for the merchandise trains til fairly late. OIBU/BUOI/OIEL/ELOI(when it ran that far, it mostly terminated at Gang Mills with the traffic forwarded on BUOI) changed crews at Port til they quit running, if I recall. The crew district ran from there to Gang Mills. The stack trains used the same crew points in the beginning, but some time in the early or mid 90s, they started running "long pool", Jersey-Binghamton, Binghamton-Buffalo. Tom B > The other thing was that Port was a terminus for passenger trains, > somethng the EL also wanted to shake off. With freight gone, the EL really > had no vested interest in the town, and Conrail moreso. > > - Paul The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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