Erie Railroad Question

[pajrr]

Hi, does anybody know where The Erie Railroad's main locomotive shops were? During the steam age? The diesel age? Any information anyone can provide will be appreciated.

[MidlandMike]

I believe it was Hornell, NY.

[Firelock76]

Mike's got it.  In the steam age the shop was at Hornell NY.  However when the diesel age began new shops were built in Youngstown and Cleveland OH.  Diesel-centric improvements were made at the Hornell shop, and smaller diesel servicing facilities were built at Binghamton, Cornell, Gang Mills, Meadville and Akron.

As an aside, the car shop was at Susquehanna PA.

[rwclx]

Hornell was the major shop, but there was also a substantial shop at Marion, OH. Lesser servicing facilities were in many locations: Jersey City, Croxton, Port Jervis, Salamanca, Meadville, Youngstown, Cleveland, Huntington In and Chicago among others.

[wanswheel]

Salamanca 1947

Jersey City 1938

[Miningman]

What a great scene at Jersey City. To spend one morning there then.

[Backshop]

Main steam backshop was Hornell, NY.  A large diesel shop was built in Marion, OH.  The main carshops were in Meadville, PA.

[Firelock76]

The time to be in Jersey City would have been in the late 40's, any month, say around 4:00 PM when the afternoon commuter trains started rollin'.

The parade o' steam was incredible! One after another after another after another, for a good two hours.  Or so I've been told, I wasn't around yet.

Of course, those commuter runs had been going on for a long, long time.  The late, lamented Joyce Kilmer even wrote a poem about one on the old Erie Main Line, and here it is.

www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-twelve-forty-five/