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From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" paultup AT lucent DOT com
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:58:53 -0500
Subject: RE: (erielack) Scranton Dispatchers office - 1965
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Great shot and story, Walter! Attached is a rotated, scaled, and contrast-adjusted version of this image...

Do you have a better close-up shot of that CTC board? Interesting that it's white with black track lines!

- Paul



> -----Original Message-----
> From: WSmith5957@aol.com [mailto:WSmith5957@aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:42 PM
> To: erielack@lists.railfan.net
> Cc: laurellines@juno.com
> Subject: (erielack) Scranton Dispatchers office - 1965
>
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> Attached is a photo of Charlie Kopechney at the dispatchers
> desk in Scranton
> in 1965. If you look out the window, you can see the Linden
> Street bridge -
> everybodys favorite trainwatching & foto spot. To Charlies'
> left is the CTC
> board for the East side of Scranton up the hill to Lehigh or
> Gouldsboro (not
> sure). Bridge 60 controlled everything in the city.
> Charlie's probly working on the trainsheet at his desk.
> I still have a
> few Scranton Div'n. trainsheets I'll sell for $20.00 ea. +
> $5.00 S&H. I have
> some Bangor & Portland Div'n. sheets too & they are smaller
> so $10.00 for
> them + $5.00 S&H. I'll mail trainsheets in a heavy cardboard
> tube to avoid
> damage. All sheets are from the mid 60s, so the Scranton
> div'n sheets still
> have many psgr trains including Miss Phoebe.
> All are original, one-of-a-kind + they have the Bloom & S&U
> divisions on them
> too.
> HERE"S THE BEST PART for the ERIE guys.......While
> looking at the roll
> of sheets on my worktable, I found mixed in with the EL
> sheets, 2 ERIE sheets
> from Susquehanna Dispatchers office in 1931. They're BIG 25 x
> 50 inches and
> LOADED!
> Lots of trains...I counted 9 W/Bs & 10 E/Bs on the one sheet
> as well as 17
> pushers & numerous freights even though it was the
> depression. Weather from
> PJ, Lackawaxen, Deposit, & Susquehanna. Psgr engines are
> 2700s & 2900s,
> freight engs - 3300s, 4100s & 2102 on the wayfreight. Pushers
> mostly 4100s.
> Now, boys, get ur copies of ERIE POWER out.
> These are what we call "museum quality' and there is
> only 2. $50 each
> takes them & I'll pay the S&H. I've looked at them all day,
> somebody else can
> have some fun.
> Anyone interested in these or the EL sheets can send
> cash, ck, or M.O.
> to
>
> Walter Smith/968 Placid
> Drive/Melbourne, Fl 32935
>
> Regards,
> Walter E. Smith
> Employee # 102156
>



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