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TB Diamond wrote:Arose early on this day 40 years ago. Ascertained that the first ConRail train JN-5 (successor to NE-1) Was out of Corning heading towards Lyons. Caught up with the job a few miles south of Glass Factory Bay and followed it to Lyons. There was a crew change at GY making the chase a bit easier. For power the job had three LVRR GP38-2 units, lead by the 324. The weather was little improvement from the preceding day but some good photos were obtained by using Kodak Tri-X and High Speed Ektachrome. Watched the caboose disappear to the west at Lyons then called it a day.
sd80mac wrote:Wish I knew about March 31 and April 1st... I was young at that time and wasn't aware of what's going on.
First time I found out that EL was no longer was when I visited my grandparents in Syracuse. And I asked grandpa to take me to his old workplace - EL Fayette yard- for the ride. As he drove up the ramp and I saw the new CR sign replacing EL sign. I was shocked and torn... That's the first business of any kind that I knew of that other company can take over other... lets see... 1976.. I was 8...
Born a bit too late....
Matt Langworthy wrote:sd80mac wrote:Wish I knew about March 31 and April 1st... I was young at that time and wasn't aware of what's going on.
First time I found out that EL was no longer was when I visited my grandparents in Syracuse. And I asked grandpa to take me to his old workplace - EL Fayette yard- for the ride. As he drove up the ramp and I saw the new CR sign replacing EL sign. I was shocked and torn... That's the first business of any kind that I knew of that other company can take over other... lets see... 1976.. I was 8...
Born a bit too late....
Same here. I am a year younger than you. Now this was probably the 2nd time your grandpa went through a change in ownership at Fayette Yard. Assuming he'd been with the RR for a while, he'd probably been through the EL merger, too. Did he ever compare the differences between EL's and Conrail's respective arrivals?
Farmer Joe wrote:My Uncle Bill Hunt had 16mm movies of riding that NYC line into Attica. He worked for the NYC, PC and Conrail. Before he passed, he gave me a VHS copy of those movies. It was some very interesting viewing. They were taken just before the line was removed in the 30's. I'd like to someday get them transferred to DVD. I'm sure he passed out more than one copy of that movie too.
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