Any Erie Railroad Fans out there?

Ben Fiorelio, they're calling for you.  Tie down your train and come to the Forum.  

Sam, I am also fond of the Erie, although my only real exposure to it was at Dearborn Station in Chicago on a couple of occasions.  If the Erie Limited were still running, I'd be a passenger.

Ya gotta love their Berkshire, as it opened up lots of oportunities for the AMC and some rather famous and well remembered chooches.  At one time I was a big fan of the S4B 2-8-4.   Using this exercise as a starting point, you got the C&O T1 2-10-4, which was sort of slide-ruled into the H8 2-6-6-6. Then throw in 125 PRR J1 2-10-4s based on the T1 of 1930. But even then, the whole S4/ T1 thing was re-engineered into the PM / NKP Berk family. Then you get a whole gaggle of Berks springing forth from this design, of which the C&O takes the cake , IMHO !  The Van  Berk has an awesome lineage and still produces as advertised.  Ask Rich!  And this whole affair starts on the Erie back in the mid / late '20s !

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I model the Erie Lackawanna just after the merger..

My g-grandfather was a brakeman on the Erie.  I also have ten years or so of daily journals from a road foreman out of the Dunmore shops, very interesting reading.  

I have a new Williams  ERIE Burke that I am going to put up for sale tomorrow morning if any of you guys have an interest

    In the early '50's, our parents would take us to a small hotel in Mill Rift, PA from here on Long Island. We took an Erie train from New Jersey (Weehawken?) to Port Jervis, NY. The station there still stands today. A "station wagon" would meet us at the station and take us across the river to the Glenwood Hotel in Mill Rift.

    All these years I have had a photo of an Erie RS-3 that my parents took. I can only guess that this was the engine that pulled the train we were on. I do remember sitting in the first car and seeing the engine's other headlight peering through the glass of the front door. I also remember a small paper cup dispenser and a water fountain in the car we rode.

    I remember how smoky and sooty the Port Jervis station was and so I guess there were some steamers still running through there at that time. I was seven or eight years old back then.

John Knapp

Remember the Pride of Youngstown and the Spirit of Youngstown?  

John, the Erie Terminal was in lower Jersey City, at foot of Pavonia Ave.,, about halfway between Hoboken DL&W terminal, which is still in use, and Exchange Place, where PRR had a terminal.  There was a Hudson & Manhattan (H&M) RR (Hudson Tubes, not PATH) terminal there.

4 Erie tracks ran thru a cut in the Palisades, adjacent to Washburn St and Dickinson HS.  Erie had steam running as late as 1954.  I lived at northern tip of Hudson County and commuted by #44 bus to St Peter's Prep HS at 144 Grand St in JC.  Bus passed over the cut, with a bus stop on the Palisade Ave. bridge and while it was stopped unloading passengers, the steam and diesel commuter trains would barrel under the bus.

Many of my co-students commuted on the Erie

I include Erie & Erie Lackawanna passenger and freight in the late 1950's early 1960's on the West End in Northwest Indiana and the Calumet Region of Chicago on my layout. I also a Lackawanna Trainmaster(Lionel 1955) and MTH woodside caboose that operates on the layout although the Lackawanna Railroad never operated in Illinois or Indiana. In the general fleet of freight cars I have Erie, Lackawanna and Erie-Lackawanna Railroads are used in interchange service.     

 I lived in Garfield, N.J. when I was a kid and half a block from our house ran 3 tracks of the Erie railroad. There was plenty of traffic due to being only 10 miles NYC.We just remember the steam error and those big steamers making the ground rumble. We got to climb into the watch tower as the gates were not automated then. I have some very fond memories of the Erie and my layout is modeled after it.   

If you rode the ERIE LIMITED from Buffalo to Corning in August, you HAD to develop some interest in the Erie.   BTW, the basis for using that name on that route came from an original 1932 Erie timetable........  And like some people mentioned above, the NKP 700's were direct descendants of the Erie Berkshires.

BTW, the two page color spread of the NKP 765 on the Letchworth Gorge bridge in the 75th Anniversary Issue of TRAINS MAGAZINE was outstanding.  Those were the biggest crowds we've seen at the 765's passage at one location since the May 2013 excursions around Horseshoe Curve.  There were people simply everywhere, on all sides of the train, bridge and falls.  It must have been over 1000 people.

Bump. Let's give this another roll of the dice.

When I was just an "0-4-0" in grade school in the fifties, we used to travel from home

in N.J. to see Grandma in Middletown, N.Y.  My mother and two uncles grew up in that

house on Monhagen Ave.  The rear of the property butted right up against Erie's main

line!  Since we always visited on Sundays, there wasn't much passing by, except for

a local passenger run slipping out of town.  But it was enough to connect with fond

memories of those days, so every Erie train item I have keeps me there.

     Hoppy

Would never model the Erie, but always thought the Erie's black w/yellow cat whiskers livery for the 1st generation diesels to be... well... the cat's meow!  Their FA's especially look good in that scheme, definitely a cool cat. (Can't seem to get away from the corny side of this post!)

I grew up by the Erie's "Northern Branch." As a kid I barely remember steam but I saw plenty of black and yellow RS3s, SW-1s and GP-7s. The commuter trains, powered mostly by RS3s, were awesome. They ripped by at 50+ mph on the then double track line. The most unusual thing I saw was long hopper trains pulled by A-B-B-B-A F units moving fill from US Rt.80 under const. around 1960. Local freights were powered by an SW or GP with a bright red Erie steel caboose. One of the best spots was Granton Junction where the Erie, NYC and NYS&W ran close to each other. What a show!