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Carriages, horses, carts, and people jockeyed with locomotives and coaches ... Eventually, the Lackawanna Railroad merged with the Erie Railroad in an effort to consolidate duplicate facilities.
The ERIE-LACKAWANNA RAILROAD was one of the three major Cleveland components of the CONRAIL network which included the NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD and the PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. The Erie-Lackawanna ...
The PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD was one of the 3 major components of the CONRAIL network, which included the ERIE-LACKAWANNA RAILROAD and the NEW ... Cleveland became the first to burn coal in its ...
The locomotive, built in 1950 ... traced back to 1872 when it connected Hammondsport at the south end of Keuka Lake with the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad at Bath. The ...
A Wabtec R255 hybrid battery-diesel work locomotive for New York’s MTA testing on the track in Erie, Pennsylvania. Credit: Wabtec Corporation. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of New ...
Completed in 1911, the rail line carried passengers and freight until the 1970s. An Erie Lackawanna Railroad locomotive leads the eastbound “Phoebe Snow” passenger train near Scranton on Nov. 15, 1966 ...
General Electric U34CH diesel locomotives helped modernize commuter rail operations in northern New Jersey in the early 1970s. Erie Lackawanna U34CH No. 3372 at Secaucus, N.J., in 1971. Pete Klapper ...
Some 1,400 members of two United Electrical Workers (UE) locals went on strike Thursday at the Wabtec locomotive plant in Lawrence Park, outside Erie, Pennsylvania after rejecting the company’s ...
The locomotive and its train predate NJ Transit. The New Jersey Department of Transportation had them designed and built to run on the Erie-Lackawanna railroad’s diesel-powered lines in the ...
Mar. 3—An old diesel locomotive nicknamed "Nickel Plate 190," which last rolled on rails in Lackawanna County over four decades ago, will return to Scranton for restoration for potential ...
When former Lackawanna Mayor Geoffrey M. Szymanski wanted a new job, Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz, a fellow Lackawanna native, offered him one. But now, after 2½ years in his county ...