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This train is the last of its kind. Historians want to bring it back to life.
The U-Boat and its trains replaced aging commuter equipment on the Erie-Lackawanna railroad. Commuters rode in passenger cars built in the 1920s and 1930s, “air conditioning” was opening a ...
The New York Times1mon
HARRIMAN'S MOTOR CAR TRIED OVER THE ERIE; Self-Propelled Coach Intended to Serve Isolated Towns. THE TRIP A SUCCESS President Underwood Wants a Number of the New Cars for ...
Hundreds of persons living along the line of the Erie Railroad saw a red ... In general design the car is very different from the common type of passenger or trolley coach. The trial trip ...
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ERIE-LACKAWANNA RAILROAD
In 1948 the Erie Railroad dedicated a new Lee-Hts. suburban passenger station near Lee and Miles, and in 1949 the Erie, using tracks rented from the NYC, moved into the Terminal Tower, closing its old ...
Erie Times-News9mon
'A terrible scene': A look back at a 1953 train crash that killed 21
Bruce McIntyre of the Erie Times-News was among the first reporters ... causing the accident. Overturned rail cars, twisted metal, broken glass, and scattered belongings littered the area just ...
The New York Times1mon
TRAINS CRASH; 8 KILLED; Erie Railroad Express Strikes a Freight at Red House, N.Y. Wreckage Burns and Only One of the Dead Is Identified -- Ten Injured -- An Operator's Blunder.
Eight persons are dead and ten injured, three of them seriously, as the result of a collision between an express train and a freight train on the Erie ... the only passenger in that car.