This Erie Railroad Train Sign is a reproduction and enhanced ERIE Railroad ad celebrating the 150th anniversary of the railroad with an “E” unit. It features an old dock scene, collage of logos and train arrival time tables. A beautiful aluminum sign of an historic railroad ad sign made with .025 gauge aluminum, measures 10″ x 12″, with rounded corners and an 1/8″ hole in each corner. These signs are proudly made in the USA.
If you wander through Pennsylvania, check out Erie Railroad information on Wikipedia.
The Erie Railroad (reporting mark ERIE) was a railroad that operated in the northeastern United States, originally connecting New York City — more specifically Jersey City, New Jersey, where Erie’s Pavonia Terminal, long demolished, used to stand — with Lake Erie, at Dunkirk, New York. It expanded west to Chicago with its 1865 merger with the former Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, also known as the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad (NYPANO RR). Its mainline route proved influential in the development and economic growth of the Southern Tier of New York State, including cities such as Binghamton, Elmira, and Hornell. The Erie Railroad repair shops were located in Hornell and was Hornell’s largest employer. Hornell was also where Erie’s mainline split into two routes, one northwest to Buffalo and the other west to Chicago.
On October 17, 1960, the Erie merged with former rival Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad to form the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. The Hornell repair shops were closed in 1976, when Conrail took over, and repair operations moved to the Lackawanna’s Scranton facility. This had a devastating effect on Hornell, from which it has never recovered. (The repair shops have subsequently been used, intermittently, for the assembly of railroad and transit cars, and are now owned by Alstom.) Some of the former Erie line between Hornell and Binghamton was damaged in 1972 by the floods of Hurricane Agnes, but the damage was quickly repaired and today this line is a key link in the Norfolk Southern Railway’s Southern Tier mainline. What was left of the Erie Lackawanna became part of Conrail in 1976.[1] In 1983, Erie remnants became part of New Jersey Transit rail operations, including parts of its Main Line. Today most of the surviving Erie Railroad routes are operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.