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I had heard that the Huntington Band was not involved and hence was allowed to continue. Whatever the story was, the Huntington Band did last a lot longer than the others. As late as the 1950's at least, the Erie Veterans (retirees) used to have an annual get together and the Huntington Band played ...

Anyone who ever played in a band might be interested in this series also. Each Division had a Shop Band and they are all pictured in this series.

A similar plan was proposed around 35 years ago. IIRC, the route was the NYC (PC or whatever it was at the time) from Charlotte to a connection with the subway, subway to the Lehigh Valley, Lehigh or some combination perhaps of the Lehigh and Erie-Lackawanna to Mortimer and the E-L from there on sou...

For the past week or so, the Brooks Avenue Yard appears to be packed with cars, mostly covered hoppers - much more than I recall seeing ordinarily. Anybody have an ideas where they all came from - and where they might be going? Ted

I, too, will cast a vote for the K-1's. In the 1930's and '40's, we had few on the Rochester Division. Trains No. 467 and 468 had K-1's some years. Other years they got 5000-series doodlebugs - sort of an on and off situation. No. 468 was a milk train and between Livonia and Conesus, there was a fla...