Erie Lackawanna Historical Society, Inc.

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.  If you have information, documents, photographs or other ephemera relating to the railroads we cover and would like to share it with others with a similar interest through this web site, we encourage you to do so. We do request that prior to submitting any information you contact the webmaster via email using the link at the bottom of the page.

Morning Sun books recently released the seventh volume in a series of books covering the Erie Lackawanna railroad. Past volumes have covered the line from east to west; the earliest years of the railroad; as well as a look at the railroad through the eyes of a single photographer. The Erie and the Lackawanna have also been given attention in the “In Color” series. In addition to the “In Color” series of books, Morning Sun has also covered the Lackawanna, Erie, and EL with their facilities series, color guides to freight and passenger equipment, through passenger service and various titles in the “Trackside” series. This seventh volume in the “In Color” series of EL books is the first to cover a specific division – in this case the Mahoning Division.

Veteran railroader and former EL employee Steve Timko authored the book and populated it using slides from the ELHS Archive collection. Coverage begins on the ore docks at Cleveland with a series of photographs taken in the final years of the EL. GP35’s and U25B’s are seen working the Riverbed as the Hulett unloaders empty lake boats of their loads of iron ore for the blast furnaces of Youngstown and beyond. Coverage of the 1^st sub-division continues with images from the yards at Literary Avenue and East 55^th. Several shots of the Cleveland-Youngstown commuter trains are also included. Some early Conrail images of un-touched EL motive power also fill the book including one at North Randall with a Burlington Northern RS3 in Spokane, Portland and Seattle paint!