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Re: (erielack) RE: Dewitt

I don't know what this correspondence is all about, but I sure wish I had a 
copy of the video!

Todd K. Stearns


- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walter Smith" <wsmith5957_@_hotmail.com>
To: <lackawanna_@_bellsouth.net>; "EL List" <erielack@lists.elhts.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 7:17 PM
Subject: (erielack) RE: Dewitt


>
> Thanks so much for the movies of the NYC at Dewitt. If I'm right, some of 
> it showed the elevated section when it was built thru Syracuse, NY. Prior 
> to that, the trains ran down the east - west streets (Erie Blvd, I think). 
> When I was about 10 years old, my uncle was manager of the barnd new 
> McCrory's downtown Syracuse. As a reward for getting good marks all thru 
> the year, He and my aunt would take me up there for a week or so in the 
> summer. Of course when my aunt Helen asked 'what do u want to do, Walter?' 
> go look at trains!!!. I never got to see the NYC station because my aunt 
> thought it was 'too busy'. You just bet. She did however take me to the 
> DL&W station which also was elevated and hosted 4 trains a day. I took a 
> few pictures of a big 200 class switcher huffing around the station. What 
> was really neat when I got hired on the ERIE side was transferring to the 
> Syracuse Div'n. I was running trains where I'd railfanned as a 10-yr-old. 
> The NYC had it's uptown yard right ne!
> xt to the DL&W yard just west of downtown. It was explained to me that it 
> was the remainder of the NYC trackage thru the city. The old DL&W night 
> roundhouse foreman (William Laumeister) told me about a book published by 
> the NRHS chapter called RAILS IN THE STREETS OF SYRACUSE. Great fotos of 
> NYC Hudsons among crowds of Model T Fords.
>
> Regards to all
>
> Walt Smith
>
>
>
> From: lackawanna_@_bellsouth.netSubject: FW: DewittDate: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 
> 00:54:47 +0000
>
>
> -------------- Forwarded Message: -------------- From: Ronnie McKenzie 
> <rem_@_gulfandohio.com> To: "Timothy Abbott" 
> <tpabbott_@_embarqmail.com>,<lackawanna@bellsouth.net>,"Leonard Brantley" 
> <Leonard.Brantley_@_nashcountync.gov> Subject: FW: Dewitt Date: Thu, 30 Oct 
> 2008 17:36:57 +0000 This is Great. Please check it out. Ronnie McKenzie 
> Senior Vice President PO Box 2408 422 West Cumberland Knoxville, TN 
> 37901-2408 p: 865-525-9400 ext. 36 f: 865-525-3552 
> rem_@_gulfandohio.com -----Original Message----- From: Tubman, Dutch 
> [mailto:cstubman_@_nscorp.com] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:28 PM To: 
> Hrusovsky, Dave; Clark, Bill (W.E.); Douglas Kocher; smle_@_midrivers.com; 
> Ottinger, Andrew R.; Jim Overholser; PEWEFEL_@_aol.com; Ronnie McKenzie 
> Subject: FW: Dewitt Amazing...well worth the 6 minutes it takes to watch 
> it. 'Hump Riders', changing out the track pans on the mainline, the 
> clothing of the supervisors - amazing stuff! Since it says 'DeWitt', I'm 
> assuming all of this took place around S!
> yracuse, NY. -----Original Message----- From: robert bentley 
> [mailto:wrobertbentley_@_yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:05 PM 
> To: Tubman, Dutch; Todd Hunter; Dave Gamble; Gary Shrey; Phil Opielowski 
> Subject: Fw: Dewitt --- On Thu, 10/30/08, Doug Manson wrote: > From: Doug 
> Manson > Subject: Fw: Dewitt > To: Undisclosed-Recipient_@_yahoo.com > Date: 
> Thursday, October 30, 2008, 6:18 AM > ----- Original Message ----- > From: 
> rrcjb_@_aol.com > To: undisclosed-recipients: > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 
> 2008 8:50 PM > Subject: Fwd: Dewitt > > > Kind of herky-jerky in spots but 
> some wonderful stuff > here.......... > > I'll bet those hump rider jobs 
> were lots of fun in the > rain, snow, sleet, etc., of which DeWitt had 
> plenty as I > recall. > > CJB > > > > > <> > > > > > 
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