This 50-year saga of the “Weary Erie” describes in vivid detail the turbulent last decades of a colorful, spunky, and innovative railroad. It also tells us much about what happened to American railroading, during this period: technological change, governmental over-regulation, corporate mergers, union “featherbedding,” uneven executive leadership, and changing patterns of travel and business...

Railroad Days is not an ordinary book about trains and locomotives. Indeed, with more than ninety photographs and illustrations illuminating the memories of the author, and other former track workers, Railroad Days shows the reader a time in American history when the railways were the nation's superhighways...

These ready-to-run cars are prepainted and lettered, and include trucks and horn-hook couplers.

This is a new Erie Lackawanna Railroad Pin 1"

8. AERIAL VIEW OF THE CENTRAL SPAN LOOKING TO THE SOUTHEAST - Erie & Lackawanna Railroad Bridge, Spanning Hackensack River, Kearny, Hudson County, NJ

The Erie Railroad's main line crossed eastern Pennsylvania and southern New York to Binghamton on its way west to Chicago. In the early 1960s, the Erie merged with competitor, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western to form the Erie-Lackawanna...