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RE: (erielack) May calendar photo

Schuyler, i agree with u about the foto - typical wellbuilt DL&W station 
thinking it'd be there until the 2nd Comiing.

Walt


>From: "Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>
>Reply-To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
>To: "'EL Mail List'" <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
>Subject: RE: (erielack) May calendar photo
>Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 21:59:40 -0400
>
>
>I was finally in the office long enough and with enough time today to turn 
>the page to show this
>picture.  Oddly, to me, it is evocative, but not necessarily in a positive 
>way.  As a Binghamton
>native, I well recall those HOT, humid days where the sun is high, like in 
>this photo, and there's
>no breeze, and the glare is a killer.  Mosquitoes aren't the problem at 
>this time of day, but as you
>walk around in the weeds, there's the crickets and other bugs that can jump 
>around ten feet, flying
>all over, and a few bouncing off you.  You don't feel much like moving 
>around, the heat is just
>radiating up from that ballast, and you're thinking about a milkshake (or 
>an ice-cold beer, if of
>the right age).  Photo's in the camera now, and you trudge back to the car. 
>  When you get in, the
>vinyl seat burns the back of your legs, and the air in there, even though 
>you left the windows down,
>is stifling.  Burned the underside of your arm on the window sill, too.  
>The sweat collects on your
>back as you head down toward Owego to see if there's anything happening at 
>the station, so you're
>sticking to everything.  The only hope is that around six, six-thirty, 
>there will be a one of those
>large, noisy thunderstorms, with the huge raindrops that splatter all over, 
>steaming off the hot
>pavement.  With luck, it'll cool off from around 92-93 to maybe 80.  Won't 
>be quite so bad to sleep
>tonight.
>
>SGL
> >
> > This is a great example of "what photo do I use when I don't have
> > anything else".  Actually there is a sort of redeeming quality to it.
> > It does depict the state of economic affairs within the Lackawanna at
> > this time.  Fireproof, almost indestructable buildings shuttered with
> > the area around them used for storage.  At one time a train order
> > office, the semaphores were taken away a long time ago.
> > Lackawanna was
> > trying to get in the black with piggyback, but there was just too much
> > regulation to permit that.  Pheobe really needed a partner at Buffalo,
> > either NKP or Wabash would have been nice.
> >
> > Ed Montgomery
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul) [mailto:paultup_@_alcatel-lucent.com]
> > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 1:48 PM
> > To: EL Mail List
> > Subject: (erielack) May calendar photo
> >
> > Turning the EL calendar over...
> >
> > This month's image is a little "blah" - it's the DL&W Apalachin, NY
> > station taken in 1959, not too long after the last passenger trains
> > stopped using it. This is the station that's still sitting
> > there, right
> > next to NY State 17 (or whatever Interstate highway number it is now).
> > No trains in this image, and sadly, since this appears to be a mid-day
> > shot, there is no sun to highlight the station walls (everything below
> > the roofline is in very dark shadow).
> >
> > The details in the photo sre pretty interesting, though - the
> > lumber in
> > the background (was there a lumberyard here?) and the industrial
> > building at the right. And the reinforced grade crossing in the
> > foreground is a nice - and seemingly modern-looking - touch.
> >
> > The DL&W track standards around here are still pretty high,
> > even at this
> > late date.
> >
> > 	- Paul
> >
> >
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