By Paul Carleton. Out of print, but check used book websites And it's not cheap. Also check out Morning Sun's E-L books.
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Larry DeYoung's excellent series of books published by Morning Sun are still available through hobby shops and some book stores. Also look for "Erie Lackawanna Memories" by Preston Cook. You will need to look for that on eBay as it was one of the first all-color books, done in a relatively small print run, and sold out soon after it was released by Old Line Graphics about 15 years ago.
As already listed, the Morning Sun series (of which a new volume was just released this month) and Preston Cook's book are outstanding resources.
In addition to these fine volumes, my library also consists of two softcover volumes: "Erie-Lackawanna East" by Robert Zimmerman and
the Robert Pennisi Erie-Lackawanna book in his series of books on the Conrail predecessors. EL East is a great book, full of b/w pictures and text that concentrate on the EL east of Scranton and Binghamton. Pennisi's book is short on text but also full of b/w photos. I've seen EL East in several NY/NJ area hobby shops as well as on eBay. I haven't seen Pennisi's book available for a while now, but I'm sure it'll probably pop up on eBay sooner or later.
Joe P :D
Long Live The EL
In addition to these fine volumes, my library also consists of two softcover volumes: "Erie-Lackawanna East" by Robert Zimmerman and
the Robert Pennisi Erie-Lackawanna book in his series of books on the Conrail predecessors. EL East is a great book, full of b/w pictures and text that concentrate on the EL east of Scranton and Binghamton. Pennisi's book is short on text but also full of b/w photos. I've seen EL East in several NY/NJ area hobby shops as well as on eBay. I haven't seen Pennisi's book available for a while now, but I'm sure it'll probably pop up on eBay sooner or later.
Joe P :D
Long Live The EL
The author of EL East is Karl Zimmerman, not Robert. Also, I found one copy of his book on eBay. Better hurry though, the auction ends in about 8 hrs (I'm at work now, it's 4am Sunday).
Joe P :D
Long Live The EL
Joe P :D
Long Live The EL
I recommend both softcover pictural books from B. Pennisi and K. Zimmerman. Zimmerman has some excellent photos on the ex-Erie Southern Tier between PJ & Bingo. The rear cover color photo from Pennisi's book has a picture taken in Hancock, NY. However both books lack coverage of the Caldwell and Northern Valley branches as well as the ex-DL&W lines to Syracuse and Utica.
I myself produced a nice little 30 page book on the Erie Lackawanna called,ANATOMY OF THE ERIE LACKAWANNA and it came out the year Conrail began operations. Press run was 250 copies and sold out. I hope to do a revised and enlarged version one day. Till then, my website at http://jimmancuso1.tripod.com/theerielackawannalimited/ contains much of the same material to be used. Feel free to peruse that. I also cover the two component railroads separately as well.
rangerjim94 wrote:I myself produced a nice little 30 page book on the Erie Lackawanna called,ANATOMY OF THE ERIE LACKAWANNA and it came out the year Conrail began operations. Press run was 250 copies and sold out. I hope to do a revised and enlarged version one day. Till then, my website at http://jimmancuso1.tripod.com/theerielackawannalimited/ contains much of the same material to be used. Feel free to peruse that. I also cover the two component railroads separately as well.Jim, getting a tripod error page from this link.
498 wrote:Larry DeYoung's excellent series of books published by Morning Sun are still available through hobby shops and some book stores. Also look for "Erie Lackawanna Memories" by Preston Cook. You will need to look for that on eBay as it was one of the first all-color books, done in a relatively small print run, and sold out soon after it was released by Old Line Graphics about 15 years ago.IMO, these books are the gold standard for later period EL pics. I've also heard there are some good shots of '70s era EL featured in both Trackside Buffalo and Trackside Cleveland but most of the EL pics in Trackside Sayre are from the early years of the merger.
Matt Langworthy
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These titles look good too:
http://www.morningsunbooks.com/eriecat4.html
http://www.morningsunbooks.com/eriecat4.html
SO
Here are a couple other approaches to try to get access to my Erie Lackawanna Limited website:
1.type: http://jimmancuso1.tripod.com/ and leave off the site name, or type the site name in the Google search window as follows: The Erie Lackawanna Limited and that should get you in. My apologies for the Tripod Error message. For some reason that is not working like it should and thus the alternative approaces. I hope this helps.
1.type: http://jimmancuso1.tripod.com/ and leave off the site name, or type the site name in the Google search window as follows: The Erie Lackawanna Limited and that should get you in. My apologies for the Tripod Error message. For some reason that is not working like it should and thus the alternative approaces. I hope this helps.