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Re: (erielack) May calendar photo

Does nobody know what the track layout was in Chester and where those cattle 
cars were dropped relative to the slaughterhouse which was on the South side 
of 17 while the Erie mainline was North of 17 and a fair distance from the 
slaughterhouse. Occasionally in the late sixties after those cattle 
deliveries had stopped Port Jervis would get a car load of hogs yarding in 
Port Jervis which needed to be cut out and taken down to the stock pen for 
watering and feeding which was almost directly across from the station at 
the East end of the Port Jervis terminal close to where the concrete base of 
the water tower for I believe pushers still exist to this date. The first 
time I was involved in this was when a stock car had to be dug out of the 
east end of train in the west bound yard. We grabbed the cars behind the 
stock car including the stock car and pulled back. The conductor then 
instructed me to ride the car as we kicked it into a track. The first thing 
to get by was the smell. The second thing was the fact was the car was old 
and had one of those old vertical type brake wheels. They kicked me and with 
that type brake wheel I wasn't able to slow down the car enough to the 
satisfaction of the conductor and when the car coupled up the pigs started 
squealing like crazy. I started laughing as well as the other member of the 
crew while the conductor started chewing us out about how much damage to 
freight cost the railroad. I was about 20-21 years old about that time.



- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>
To: "EL Mailing List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>; "Paul Tupaczewski" 
<paultup_@_comcast.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:53 AM
Subject: Re: (erielack) May calendar photo


> The EL was "going green" decades before the concept became fashionable!
>
> On a more serious note, Chester was the location of a livestock pen served 
> by NY-100 in the early 60's. The stock cars were placed on the headend. 
> Since this was the last regular stock movement on EL, I wonder if these 
> were all consigned to Kosher butchers?
>
> Paul B
>
> The Erie "main line" is showing signs of lack-of-maintenance here, with
> weeds throughout the ballast...
>
> - Paul
>
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