Re: (erielack) Marion Div. post-4/1/76

[Will Enser <alcoman_@_net.bluemoon.net>]

Gents

I had a good friend who hired on with Conrail ca 1990 or thereabouts from 
the NYLE.  He was in the "Renovo Pool" and tried a number of times to get 
on a train on the Tier working from Olean to Jamestown.  He told me that 
the locals were all held by "Erie Guys" and said that there was some kind 
of protection in the agreement that only allowed old timer EL guys to work 
that job.  Any truth to this?

Regards

Will



On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 Smtimko_@_aol.com wrote:

> Rich
>
> I was working in Youngstown DY office on 04-01-76.
>
> I believe that the Marion Dispatcher came to Youngstown on 03-31-76 to take
> care of their work from Kent to Galion.  (They formerly handled Kent to
> Marion and I believe the Dayton Branch also.)
>
> Once again, I'm thinking back 28 years......I believe that MECI, MECO,  COME,
> and CIME ran via Columbus-Galion-Akron-Kent and on to Meadville.   (They may
> have originally had other symbols, such as OM-8, etc.).  Other  trains with
> former EL crews operated Kent to  Akron-Warwick-Orrville-Mansfield-Crestline.
> Those trains were BRC-76,  BRC-78, IHB-7 and IHB-9.  There was a PB train
> operating for a short while  also.
>
> The former EL Mahoning Division (Binama Building) office and the former PC
> Valley Division(Stambaugh Building) office were combined in the fall of 1979 (I
> believe) and moved into the Ohio One Building and the Youngstown Division
> was formed.
>
> I worked the Kent to Galion portion of the former EL a few times in  1976 and
> 1977, and there were a few locals operating to service  industries.  Of
> course, Harding Yard at Ontario (Mansfield) was, and  is to this date, active with
> Fisher Body business.  Today the Fisher Body  business travels from Harding
> Yard to Mansfield on a yard crew move to make  connections out of NS Oak Street
> Yard.
>
> After the Youngstown office consolidation in 1979, I worked 2nd trick Asst
> Chief Disp  (Conway to Crestline) and later, due to force reductions,  worked
> 1st trick Dispatcher Massillon to Bucyrus.  Later when Ft Wayne was  closed
> (1982) the job worked Massillton to Ft Wayne (Adams Tower).  The  former EL crews
> manned their own trains from Crestline to Ft Wayne (Huntington  crews) and
> from Crestline to Kent (Marion crews).
>
> Hope this helps somewhat.
>
> Keith Robbins---you out there to make any corrections required and to add  to
> this?
>
> smt
>

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