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2008-09-07T00:03:34Z

The Erie Lackawanna Historical Society, Inc., a historical society dedicated to preserving and disseminating information about the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, the Erie Railroad, the Erie Lackawanna Railway and related lines.

Our mission is for this web site to be a useful asset to our members as well as a valuable research and reference tool for those interested in the history of the DL&W, Erie and Erie Lackawanna.

Note About Former Railroad Employee Records

2009-03-25T13:07:59Z

The Erie Lackawanna Historical Society does not have access to nor maintain in its Archives employee records from the DL&W, Erie or Erie Lackawanna. Two web sites that might prove useful to those in search of employee records are the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board web site and for former Erie Railroad employees and a possible lead for former DL&W employees, Jim Sponholz's web site pages dedicated to helping find former railroad employee records.

East Stroudsburg Station Will be Relocated

2010-08-06T03:13:09Z

It been a wild ride but it paid off. The once destined for demolition East Stroudsburg ex-Lackawanna station will be preserved. Through the efforts of the Save Dansbury Depot citizens group, the Eastburg Community Alliance (ECA), county and state officials and the Borough of East Stroudsburg have approved a plan on Tuesday August 3, 2010 to relocate the majority of the historical station across the track to Miller's Park .

ELHS 2011 Calendar Review

2010-07-16T02:08:18Z

This review was originally posted on the erielack mailing list. This is an open mail list that anyone can subscribe to and can be found at http://el-list.railfan.net/list/

The new ELHS 2011 calendars have just arrived. Let's take a peek at what's inside!

The cover shot is a brilliantly-lit late afternoon "sweet light" shot of an RS3 and E8 at the north end of Hoboken Terminal. Ahhh... those were the days!

The frontispiecephoto is a view of an oncoming Train Master from the cab of a train on an adjacent track on the west side of Binghamton. The "tall" appearance of these units is very obvious in this photo.

January starts off with a wonderfully snowy shot of Train PB-100 flying past the Kent, Ohio station, kicking up the white stuff as it moves along.

February features a dramatic black-and-white image of a pair of SD45-2s leading an eastbound piggyback train around a curve in Tuxedo, NY, with some snowfall still blanketing the ground in this mid-March view.

March has an Erie RS2 leading a westbound commuter train at the Ridgewood, NJ station. The first car out is one of those weird-looking Stillwell "combines." The Alco is clean and shiny in this snapshot of small town America from 1956.

Erie and DL&W Wreck Trains

2009-09-19T22:50:57Z

This 100 page, five chapter spiral bound book includes153 photographs of Erie, Lackawanna, and EL wreck cranes and their associated equipment. Most of these photographs are being published for the first time. The book also includes 36 drawings and equipment charts. Ron thoroughly covers the complete roster of wrecking cranes, wreck trains, and wrecking procedures of all three railroads. Ron also provides the first ever explanation of Erie's mysterious Maintenance Of Way numbering system.