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Erie Railroad's 1834 rail line plan An 1855 map of the New York and Erie Railroad. The New York and Erie Rail Road was chartered on April 24, 1832, by New York governor Enos T. Throop to connect the Hudson River at Piermont, north of New York City, west to Lake Erie at Dunkirk.
The EMD E8 is a 2,250-horsepower (1,678 kW), A1A-A1A passenger-train locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division (EMD) of La Grange, Illinois.A total of 450 cab versions, or E8As, were built from August 1949 to January 1954, 447 for the U.S. and 3 for Canada. 46 E8Bs were built from December 1949 to January 1954, all for the U.S.
In 1958, as part of the consolidation of operations between the Erie and DL&W railroads—the roads would merge formally in 1960 to form the EL—DL&W's mainline between Binghamton and Corning, New York, was severed and all trains traveling between those points were rerouted over the Erie mainline. Between April 29 and July 1, 1962, all ...
The Erie Lackawanna Railway was formed on March 1, 1968, as a subsidiary of Dereco, the holding company of the Norfolk and Western Railway, which had bought the railroad. On April 1, the assets were transferred as a condition of the proposed but never-consummated merger between the N&W and Chesapeake and Ohio Railway .
4109 painted in heritage Central Railroad of New Jersey scheme. EMD GP40PH-2B: 4200–4219 1965–1969 1993–1994 19 Ex-Penn Central. 4208 painted in Conrail heritage paint scheme. 4210 painted in Erie Railroad heritage paint scheme. 4219 was rebuilt from GP40PH-2A 4148, which was damaged in 1996. [1] EMD F40PH-2CAT: 4119, 4120 1981 2
Until 1976 the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, and previously the Erie Railroad, [1] had operated a single daily commuter train between Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio. [2] The railroad had attempted to discontinue the train in 1970, along with its other passenger operations other than New Jersey commuter services, but the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio denied it permission. [2]
The Erie Limited was a streamlined passenger train operated by the Erie Railroad between Jersey City, New Jersey (for New York City) and Chicago, Illinois via the Southern Tier. It operated from 1929 to 1963. After the merger of the Erie and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W) in 1960 it was known as the Erie-Lackawanna Limited ...
From The New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company, Nov. 14, 1895— Constructed by The New York and Erie Railroad Company— Piermont to Dunkirk, N. Y., 1835-1851 447.828 Greycourt to Newburgh, N. Y., 1845-1850 19.098 Constructed by The Buffalo and New York City Railroad Company— Hornellsville to Attica, N. Y., 1852-1854 62.281