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(erielack) M of W inventory trip

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>Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 01:59:18 -0400
>From: Gordon Davids <g.davids_@_verizon.net>
>Subject: Re: (erielack) EL equipment list

>It's interesting to note the December 31, 1969 date on that equipment list. 
>Apparently there was a concern somewhere in Cleveland about the physical presence
>and condition of that equipment, because about one week into December, 1969 Bill
>Shepherd, Morris Trent (System Mechanical Inspector from Meadville) and I were assigned
>a project to travel the length of the EL and every branch to find every piece of
>M/W car equipment and note its location, condition and use.

>We started from Hoboken and went to Binghamton on both the DL and Erie sides, and
>then up to Syracuse, crossed over and came back from Utica.  I called my office 
>from Binghamton on that Friday afternoon and was instructed to report to Youngstown
>on Monday morning to be the Asst. Division Engineer on the Mahoning Division (from
>having been ADE at Hoboken).  The weather was lousy, with snow and icy roads, and
>we were hit with a blizzard right after I got off the phone that Friday.  I think
>Bill and Morris continued for about one more week until Bill came down with pneumonia,
>and that was the end of the "study."

>I suppose they took what we had and surmised the rest.

>Gordon Davids



Gordon,

Interesting story about the inventory trip. In 1969 there would have been a lot of old equipment scatttered around the system. Did you or your colleagues come across any forgotten antiques hidden away that Cleveland was not aware of?


Philip Albano

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