by Ron S.
In Larry DeYoung’s book ‘Erie Lackawanna in Color, Volume 2: New York State’, there’s a photograph (page 74) taken by the late Harry Scholz of an E-L detour train "on the Penn Central connection at North Corning".
The caption goes on to read “the EL mainline is in the background, and the SD45 #3618 waits to assist the next westbound in the runaround move”…
Something just doesn’t seem right to me here…I suspect that the E-L unit is actually on Penn Central trackage here (parallel to the Corning Branch main track) and that the E-L mainline is to be seen even further in the background, in the very top right hand corner of the shot? Am I correct?
In summary, can anyone tell me EXACTLY where Mr. Scholz would have been standing when he shot this move?
Regards,
Ron Stafford
The caption goes on to read “the EL mainline is in the background, and the SD45 #3618 waits to assist the next westbound in the runaround move”…
Something just doesn’t seem right to me here…I suspect that the E-L unit is actually on Penn Central trackage here (parallel to the Corning Branch main track) and that the E-L mainline is to be seen even further in the background, in the very top right hand corner of the shot? Am I correct?
In summary, can anyone tell me EXACTLY where Mr. Scholz would have been standing when he shot this move?
Regards,
Ron Stafford