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From: "Daniel G DOT McFadden" dan DOT mcfadden AT gmail DOT com
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:26:39 -0400
Subject: RE: (erielack) Where were you?
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Hard to believe it was 54 years ago? Oh yes - yikes! At the time, I was a
student (supposedly) at Drew University. It seemed like I was just getting
to know a little bit about the DL&W and here everything was about to change.
It wasn't that I had any dislike of the Erie but I just wanted nothing to
change. Was that too much to ask?

On the Friday, October 14, I headed to Denville, my favorite haunt and of
course convenient to Madison. I had my trusty Brownie along and took a shot
of X-64 at Mt. Tabor. This was the equipment from the first train up the
Boonton Line (1013); it backed down from Dover and around the wye at
Denville before heading east on the Morris & Essex to pick up the empty milk
cars. That day and evening at Denville, I saw 4 big freights; a PD-X, HB-1,
HB-3, and BH-8. Also of possible interest, Number 7 had 15 cars with the
815+803B+817 for power. So the DL&W was far from dead that last Friday.

On the Monday, the first day of the combined roads, I walked down to the
station at Madison to see Train 5, the Twilight. My tortured teen brain was
relieved to see nothing out the ordinary with E8s 818 and 816 rolling
through with 13 cars at 5:32 PM.

The first physical evidence of the merger that I witnessed was in Hoboken on
Sunday October 30. Observation car 99 was outfitted with speakers and
re-lettered for the new railroad. That night in Denville, I saw the first
(for me) power re-lettered. Train 42 had the 814+967+813 for power with the
E8s having EL lettering.

The next day, those two E8s powered the Cabot-Lodge campaign train; that
entire 6 car train was re-lettered for EL.

Soon enough, I learned to love the EL.

Dan McFadden



-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Connor [mailto:mjconnor_rr AT hotmail DOT com]
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 8:32 PM
To: ELRR Lists
Subject: (erielack) Where were you?


For those old enough to have seen the DL&W and Erie in person it is hard to
believe that at 12:01 AM this morning (October 17th) the Erie Lackawanna
merger is 54 years old! Where were you on that fated October 17th? I was
in high school (October 17th was a Monday) but the previous day, Sunday, the
16th, I had been at Bath, N.Y., at 12 Noon, right after Mass at St. Mary's
and a quick trip down Lackawanna Avenue to meet my Father, the Erie's
Buffalo & Rochester Division Trainmaster, who came down on #6, the "Phoebe
Snow" (riding the engine, if I recall, to familiarize himself with the
territory). At midnight he would become the Trainmaster of Erie
Lackawanna's Buffalo Division, formed of the former Erie's Buffalo &
Rochester Division and the former DL&W's Buffalo Division (west of QO
Gibson, inclusive). So I wasn't on the EL on the 17th but saw the DL&W's
premier train up front and personal on its last DL&W day.

Hope you enjoy this little vignette. Share yours!

MJC (Michael Connor)


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