In a message dated 4/4/2009 11:01:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, llyengalyn_@_hotmail.com writes: Oil City was known for Oil, but I don't know how late they were still shipping anything by rail. ............ Oil City shipped outbound lube oil as well as inbound crude oil and addatives until the refinery closed......c. 1998 or so. There were coal mines at Mineral Ridge on the Niles and Lisbon Branch and D W Dickey shipped outbound strip mine coal from Lisbon to Ohio Edison at Niles and to Standard Oil at Cleveland right up until Conrail Day One. SMT **************Hurry! April 15th is almost here. File your Federal taxes FREE with TaxACT. (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220239440x1201335902/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.taxact.com%2F08tax.asp%3Fsc%3D084102950001%26p%3D82) The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------ End of EL Mail List Digest V3 #3070 ***********************************
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