Re: (erielack) Re: Norfolk Southern Heritage Fleet - Good and Bad News

[Ed Montgomery <etmontgomery46_@_gmail.com>]

I have been re-reading H. Roger Grant's Book ERIE LACKAWANNA, DEATH OF AN
AMERICAN RAILROAD.  There's lots of things to bring up from that book but
right now I submit that the EL paint scheme, no matter which one is
discussed, was only intended to be a temporary event with EL management
constantly looking for someone to take over the company NYC/PRR, N&W/C&O.
 I believe they understood that the company, sandwiched between NYC, PRR,
B&O would not be able to compete in the extended future of the merger.
 Their best hope was with N&W but fortunes began to fail even before the
hurricane Agnes hit in '72.  I think former employees would be happen with
the DL&W and Erie paint schemes.  Many kept referring to EL as "Erie" or
"Lackawanna" right to the end.

Ed Montgomery


On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Paul R. Tupaczewski
<paultup_@_comcast.net>wrote:

> > The good news: NS will paint a unit for the Lackawanna The
> > BAD news: They aren't doing an EL unit :(
> >
> > I just got an email from a member of the team coordinating
> > the various heritage schemes for NS. Their rationale is that
> > "it was pointed out to us that the Erie Lackawanna scheme is
> > substantially the same as the DL&W passenger scheme, so we
> > are planning to use correct DL&W lettering for the unit in
> > GMY instead of EL."
> >
> > I understand their thinking, but I'm upset at not getting an EL unit.
>
>
>
> Ditto. I blame all the rabble-rousers who were complaining for a DL&W unit!
> :(
>
> I vote that if the GP7 in Illinois is ever restored, it should be to EL
> GMY.
> :)
>
>        - Paul
>
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