Keeping the Memory Alive

Keeping the Memory Alive

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ELHS 2009 Annual Meeting

October 9-11, 2009; The Treadway Inn, Owego, NY

Hosted by the Susquehanna Valley Railway Historical Society

Banquet at the Starrucca House; former Erie Railroad Susquehanna, PA train station.

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Wanted: 2010 Annual Meeting Coordinator

We are looking for one or more people in the Chicago land/western Ohio area to help coordinate the ELHS' 2010 Annual Convention.

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This is the official web site of the Erie Lackawanna Historical Society, Inc., a historical society dedicated to preserving and disseminating information about the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, the Erie Railroad, the Erie Lackawanna Railway and related lines.

Our mission is for this web site to be a useful asset to our members as well as a valuable research and reference tool for those interested in the history of the DL&W, Erie and Erie Lackawanna.

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Note About Former Railroad Employee Records PDF Print E-mail
Written by Administrator   
Wednesday, 25 March 2009 08:07

The Erie Lackawanna Historical Society does not have access to nor maintain in its Archives employee records from the DL&W, Erie or Erie Lackawanna. Two web sites that might prove useful to those in search of employee records are the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board web site and for former Erie Railroad employees and a possible lead for former DL&W employees, Jim Sponholz's web site pages dedicated to helping find former railroad employee records.

 
Archives Update 2/07/2009 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Richard Behrendt   
Saturday, 07 February 2009 09:37

On February 7, ELHS members Rich Behrendt, Mike Connor, Dale Madison, Tom Marshalak and Joe Schveder met at Cleveland State University (CSU) in Cleveland, Ohio to begin the first phase of the eventual relocation of the ELHS Archives into CSU's Special Collections area.

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The ELHS Archives Shelving Construction team at CSU from left to right: Joe Scheveder, Mike Connor, Joe Juratov, Rich Behrendt, Dale Madison and Tom Marshalak (holding the broken team motivator in his hand


Under the guidance of CSU's Bill Barrow, Special Collections Librarian, and with assistance from fellow Nickel Plate historian Joe Juratovac, the ELHS team started at 9am to construct 36 all-steel shelf units and finished the task by 4pm.  Each unit is 7 feet high x 3 feet wide x 1 foot deep and contains 7shelves. The 252 shelves constructed will provide enough space for 504 standard archival boxes.

The shelving was constructed in 9 rows, four units wide, with cross bracing between the middle two units, thus allowing boxes to be inserted two deep from each aisle. This arrangement will accomodate all of the boxed material currently in storage.  Space will also be made available at CSU for our extensive collection of original Erie and DL&W Right-of-Way and Track maps.

The next step is the actual move of collection from storage in Mentor, OH. into the Special Collections area at CSU, which is anticipated to occur with the next 60-90 days.

Last Updated on Monday, 13 April 2009 21:48
 

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