Actually, it was the other way around. Chessie wanted the EL EAST of Sterling where it could run all trains from Sterling into Akron, bypassing the trackage rights on the PRR/PC east of Warwick. From Akron the Erie and B&O lines would split. The Chessie didn't want anything west of Sterling, they already had their own Sterling-Chicago line that was 50 miles shorter and had a more modern classification yard at Willard. I often wondered why they didn't run Chessie from Chicago-Sterling, Erie Sterling to Akron, then B&O Akron to DeForrest Jct or some point in Youngstown before splitting off to NYC and Balt/DC. That would eliminate more duplicate trackage. But it was not to be. I think in the long run we would have had a more "intact" EL than we do now. Mike Spinelli Quoting "Montgomery, Edward T" <Edward.Montgomery_@_fcps.edu>: > EL may have been able to continue if Agnus hadn't hit. N&W or > Chessie might have been more interested in the line from Sterling to > Hammond as a high-speed route out of Chicago for intermodal traffic. > Possibly ATSF would have stepped in during the 80s. Althought I'm > not sure what whould have happened to the line east of Sterling where > the steep grades took over. The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org To Unsubscribe: http://lists.elhts.org/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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