On Jan. 4, 1970, the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad dispatched the trains known as the Lake Cities on their final trips – Train No. 5 from Hoboken, New Jersey, to Chicago and Train No. 6 from Chicago ...

The Erie-Lackawanna began as the New York & Erie Railroad Co., which was chartered in 1832-33 and commenced operations in 1841. The old NY&E disappeared under foreclosure in 1862, and the Erie Railway ...

The locomotive and its train predate NJ Transit. The New Jersey Department of Transportation had them designed and built to run on the Erie-Lackawanna railroad’s diesel-powered lines in the ...

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) - A little piece of the Greatest Show on Earth will find a permanent home in Scranton. The Erie Lackawanna Dining Car Preservation Society, a Dunmore-based rail heritage group ...

It's almost impossible not to live within earshot of a train even today when trains are considerably scarcer than when Schnurlein was a lad. The Erie Lackawanna, which once ran through the fields ...

Although the acquisitions are neither dining cars nor associated with the Erie Lackawanna Railway, the circus cars will support the society’s objective of interpreting the golden age of long ...