What was the reason as to why Conrail decided to abandon the Erie Lackawanna across Ohio and Indiana verses the abandonment of the former PRR Fort Wayne Line? Was there any attempt to retain the EL over the PRR considering the EL was double stack ready in the 1970s? Did Conrail ever look into closing both the EL and the PRR but decided to retain one of the routes as a overflow or detour line?
I think a good part of it was Amtrak using the PRR route for the "Broadway Limited" and to a lesser extent, there
were commuter runs from Valparaiso, IN back and forth to Chicago. I can't speak for whether there was much in
the way of online-customers on the PRR-line but I know there weren't too many customers on the EL west of Marion.
Charlie