Erie RR

[Towntalk]

Rick is right about the train number but all are wrong on the date.

[Rick Rowlands]

That photo shows the 828, an E8 model built by Electromotive Division of General Motors. The 833, a sister unit, was used regularly on the Steel Kings, and pulled the last runs of 28 and 29, the Youngstown-Cleveland train.  833 survived into Conrail as one of the locomotives used on the executive train, then was sold to a private owner who has restored it to its as built Erie Railroad livery.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=849839

[jay]

I'd say the early 70's.  The Strouss parking deck and the overhead walkway from Wood Street are in the photo.

[john r. swierz]

  I was drafted into the Army in 1965 and we took the train and from the Erie Terminal.  Left there at 5:30 A.M. and arrived in Cleveland at 8:30A.M. We stopped at every little burg on the way.

[Oldmill]

What a flashback !   I worked for the RR in downtown back in the mid 70's until January 1984 as a part time crossing watchman. When I worked Hazel st. crossing on 3rd trick that train would leave pretty early I worked the day of its last run , although cant remember the date. That pic may be 1979 ?

[Towntalk]

Quiz for railroad buffs.

When was this picture taken of the Erie RR passanger train waiting at the Erie depot in downtown Youngstown?