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Erie Lackawanna Story by Paul Carleton
Erie Lackawanna Story by Paul Carleton
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket Name + stamped on first page. Dust jscket has some minor damage
478 pages
Copyright 1978
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION Page 7
DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN Page 9
Map Pages 10 & 11
DL&W Steam Pages 15-101
DL&W M-UPages 102-104
DL&W Diesel Pages 105-121
ERIE Page 122
Map Pages 124 & 125
Erie Steam Pages 129-229
Erie Gas-electric Pages 230-235
Erie Diesel Pages 236-265
ERIE LACKAWANNAPage 266
Map Pages 268 -269
E-L Diesel Pages 273-450
Foreign Power Pages 451-454
E-L M-UPages 455-460
Guest Steam Pages 461-469
Potpourri Pages 470-478
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Page 479
INTRODUCTION
In October of 1960 the Erie Lackawanna Railway came into existence by the implementation of a merger agreement between the two predecessor companies. Our story, however, has its beginning considerably before that date. Both the DL&W and the Erie Railroads grew up from an early beginning of myriad smaller lines joined into what became two of the major railroad companies of the eastern United States by the end of the nineteenth century.
Both the DL&W and Erie can be classified as members of the anthracite roads-that group of roads which hauled and burned enormous quantities of the hard black diamonds and shared certain similarities in their iron horses. The Erie, however, spread its iron west to Chicago and became the competitor with the eastern giants for through tonnage while the DL&W contented itself with entry into Buffalo, N.Y.
Our purpose herein, is not to present an extensive text on or a technical journal of the Erie Lackawanna and its predecessor companies. Rather, we wish to present a railfan's eye view for the most part of the motive power in use from the 1930's to 1974. This is the time period best remembered and most appreciated by rail aficionados today. Where mechanical specifications are given in steam photo captions, they follow the widely accepted standard form of stating dimensions as follows: cylinders, drivers, steam pressure, weight on drivers, total weight, and tractive effort. In the case of switchers, a single weight figure is given.
By general rule of thumb in both route miles and number of locomotives, the Erie was over twice as big as the DL&W. In our coverage, however, we have given the Lackawanna an admittedly disproportionately larger coverage to make up for the scant coverage to date afforded it elsewhere. Erie, on the other hand, was covered in a fine, fullsized picture book a few years ago.
Mergers more often than not are the end result of weakness. In application to railroads we find the weak merging with the strong or, as in the case of Erie and Lackawanna, the havenots getting together to keep the wolf from the door. This attempted solution did keep the Erie Lackwanna fluid for a time but a continuing deterioration of just about all northeast railroading and finally a devastating hurricane forced our hero into the haven of bankruptcy and that is where things stand today. Ours is not to agonize however, but to relive through fine photographs and informative captions the ERIE-LACKAWANNA ST
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