Morning Sun Books Erie Lack. Mahoning Division

I am thinking about getting this book.  Looks like a good one to have.

Mine finally arrived very good book. Hits close to home for me being I am in Northeast,Ohio well worth it.

How much information on the old Lisbon branch, if any?

Hi there,

  I just leafed through the book again, and I did not see anything with Lisbon. There may be something in there, I have not read through it all the way yet. It has stops such as Cleveland,Leavittsburg,Brier Hill,North Randall,Solon,Meadville to Salamanca,etc.

I bought the EL book last month. Very nice!

Thanks Scott for the tip on finding photos of the KENT Yard.

If anyone has some Kent Yard photos, please share them with me.

I visited the yard several times as a kid and was always impressed.

Just wish my Dad took more than 5 photos.

Railroad town, Kent and the Erie Railroad by Bruce Dzeda is a good book as well.

Steve

ontraktwo@yahoo.com

Thanks for the notification of the new Erie-Lackawanna book. I worked for the Erie for four years in the late 1960s and was based at the East 55th Street yard in Cleveland, Ohio.  On road jobs we went as far as Meadville, PA and Kent, Ohio.  I look forward to seeing the new book after I receive my order. 

Youngstown,

  You will be pleased with the book, I for one can not get enough of the Erie Lack. books from Morning Sun Publishing. It sure would be neat to go back in time and see the EL operating, I was only 10 yrs old when when they went out of business and vaguely remember seeing a few engines in the yard at Leavittsburg.

Jeff

Jeff,

Leavittsburg was an interesting Erie location.  Just west of Leavittsburg the mainline was only a single track so the train crew--both the engine crew and conductor in the caboose--would pick up our train orders.  (We slowed down and stuck our arm out of the cab to grab the orders off the Y-shaped rod.)

Also if we were going to Kent, Ohio from Cleveland, Leavittsburg is where we would uncouple the engines from the train and after running around the train cars we would recouple to the other end of the train prior to heading south to Kent.  As an aside, we departed from Cleveland with a caboose on the end of the train and immediately behind the engines so that the train had a caboose on the back end after the run around.

Interestingly the Erie corporate offices were in Cleveland  but Cleveland was not on the through mainline.

Frank

Hi Frank

  E mail me directly when you get a chance if you don't mind, I would like to ask you some questions about your time on the EL. I wish I could back in time and see the EL working. I work at the old Republic Steel in Warren {what is left of it} and it was my understanding the EL sometimes actually came into the mill?? Thanks for the info very interesting.

My email dirtyharrypilot@yahoo.com

Thanks, Jeff

I run on this line now, from Cleveland to Solon. Would be interested to see this book.

Anyone having interest in Erie operations in the Kent area needs this book - especialy the gentleman wanting photos of the Erie yard and shops. This book has numerous historic photos of the Erie in Kent - it is the primary content of the book:

Railroad Town : Kent and the Erie Railroad