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From: Richard Pennisi eldispatcher72 AT yahoo DOT com
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 23:33:41 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: (erielack) Re: Denville Scenes
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All,
There is a photo of M&E 15 derailed just west of Roseville tunnel on page 51 in my EL color book "The Erie Lackawanna...An Employees Photo Essay". It is attached below.
Rich Pennisi



On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Rudy Garbely wrote:

>
> I suppose this makes the perfect topic for me to make my first post on this
> list!
>
> The photo of M&E #15 that Dan McFadden just posted is particularly
> historically important. M&E #15 had tires, like a steam locomotive. On
> February 10, 1971 while switching, one of these tires slipped off the
> wheel. It was temporarily welded in place by the M&E's superintendent Lee
> Anderson under the supervision of an EL inspector. This photo was taken in
> Denville on the 21st, and #15 was on its way to Scranton for wheel
> replacement. However, early in the morning on the 22nd while dead in tow,
> #15 derailed in the Roseville Tunnel and chewed up almost all of the track
> in the tunnel. The locomotive was stranded in Scranton for over a year
> while the EL and M&E deliberated over who would pay the costs for the track
> repair. In the end, the EL inspector that signed off on #15's movement was
> found to be at fault, and the EL bore the cost of fixing the track. #15
> didn't return to the M&E until about October of 1972.
>
> I have the entire original incident report and all of the correspondence
> for this accident, which has been scanned and attached here for your
> viewing pleasure.
>
> This is the only photo I've ever seen of that ill-fated movement! Very
> cool!
>
> *Rudy Garbely*
> Pompton Plains, NJ
>
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