E-L and the Snow: 1960

In light of the recent snowstorm, a posting appeared on the Erie Lackawanna List (http://lists.railfan.net/cgi-bin/lists/ ... st.archive)
of a mimeographed sheet the Erie-Lackawanna distributed to riders after a 1960 storm. Thought the List might find these images of interest:

http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto. ... page_1.jpg
http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto. ... page_2.jpg

Very interesting, thanks for sharing them.

Wow, that's really an incredible story! Must've been some storm. I wonder if there are any "railroad and snow" stories like that today?

Farmer's Almanac reported the following about that December 1960 Blizzard -somewhat similar to our most recent storm:

1960 December 12 Pre-Winter Blizzard in Northeast
20.4" of snow at Newark, NJ; 17" at New York City, NY; 13" at Boston, MA: Nantucket, MA, had 15.7" with wind averaging 36 to 51 mph.

http://www.farmersalmanac.com/weather/a ... -blizzards

In a wacky digression, my sister was born on the evening of December 11, 1960 in Englewood, NJ... and my father was driving from Norwood through a snowstorm to get my mother there to the hospital. As a young kid, following that storm, I remember we had the highest plowed piles of snow all around I remembered until the mid-70's. Heck of a storm, even through a kid's eyes.