D.Carleton wrote:There is a subtle irony to all of this. Return with me now to the days when Big Blue had the Northeast in its death grip and Al Gore had not yet invented the internet. There was more-than-idle speculation that Suzy-Q would engage in a lopsided trade with CSX: The four GE’s would join the rest of their brethren at CSX and the ten SD60s, the only 710 powered locomotives then on the roster, would go to NYSW. All of this was contingent on Walter Rich making good on reviving the former Erie to Ohio and friendly connection with the former B&O. Now all these years later the former Erie is active, the GE’s are off the roster and Suzy-Q may be getting SD60s after all. It’s funny how these things work out.
I dont understand what you mean by "Walter Rich making good on reviving the former Erie to Ohio"..
what needed to be revived? The stack trains ran on the Conrail southern tier main between Binghamton & Buffalo,
operated by the D&H Buffalo to Binghamton using the D&H traffic rights from 1976..
but there was no "reviving" to be done..since the line was always in continuous use..
Or are you referring to the Erie between Hornell and Meadville?
Were there plans in the works to use that route for the stack trains? I dont think I ever heard that..
but if so, Conrail still owned it..so how could they run there? NYSW had no control over that line at all..
and D&H could only run on the Buffalo-Binghamton route..not the Meadville route..
Conrail was never happy that the stack trains operated over their line Buffalo-Binghamton..but they had to allow it.
but they *didnt* have to allow them to run on the Meadville line..and they never did..
so im confused what you are referring to..can you elaborate please?
thanks,
Scot