Erie Lackawanna before and after
1975 and 1999
Griffith, Indiana
Photos by Mark Llanuza
"It's March 27th 1976 only a few days left for the Erie Lackawanna. We're at Griffith Indiana with this eastbound coming into Griffith with four E-units. We saw this train on I-80 we raced like hell to get this shot as we jumped out of the car at the last minute to capture this eastbound."
Photo by Mark Llanuza
A westbound Erie-Lackawanna freight crosses Broad Street in Griffith, Indiana
June 1975
Before and after:
Erie Lackawanna ROW, Griffith, Indiana
1975 and 1992
Photos by Mark Llanuza
Then and now:
Erie Lackawanna ROW, Crown Point, Indiana
1976 and 2018
Photos by Mark Llanuza
Erie Lackawnna E-units Griffith April 1975 by Mark LLanuza Via Flickr: “It’s April 1975 the head brakeman is talking to the engineer before making a switch move to interchange with the EJ&E at Griffith Ind in the pouring rain.”
Photo by Mark Llanuza
“Don’t the brakeman look good, mama, flagging down the Double E?” (It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry)
Source: flickr.com
Alco leads the way by Zeolite C O Via Flickr: Well...on this day anyway. This Century is leading two streamlined EMD's eastward. We're at Griffith, Indiana in November of 1974.
Source: Flickr / zeolite_c_o
Bensenville, Illinois
June 3, 1975
Photo by Bill Johnson
Before and after at Griffith Indiana by Matthew Ditton Via Flickr: A before and after at Griffith Indiana along the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. The first shot was taken by Mark Llanuza of an eastbound at Broad Street in 1975. The current photo was taken by me on 5/4/19. If you look close you can still see a couple telegraph poles and one of the signal bases.
Source: Flickr / mattditton1976
“It's the last winter for the Erie-Lackawanna, being January, 1976, but it's still business as usual for this EL crew as they discuss yarding their transfer run in the Milwaukee Road's Bensenville yard. Just about every option had been explored to save the railroad, including being acquired by the Chessie System, but to no avail. The line would end up being included in Conrail in three months. For me, the loss of the EL was the worst of all the independent lines that went down. Sights, like this Alco C424 and the U25B in maroon and gray, would be gone forever.”
Bensenville, Illinois
January 19, 1976
Photo by Bill Johnson
Source: Flickr / wrongmain
They looked and sounded great by Zeolite C O Via Flickr: “Dual Erie Lackawanna ‘E's’ take freight westward through Griffith, Indiana in the summer of 1974. Unless you eat some magic mushrooms or find a hit of Mr. Natural, you won't see this anymore on what is now the Erie Lackawanna biking trail... Canon QL-17 rangefinder on Kodachrome-X.”
Source: Flickr / zeolite_c_o
EL, Griffiths, Indiana, 1972 by Center for Railroad Photography & Art Via Flickr: Eastbound Erie Lackawanna Railway freight train with E-units
Griffith, Indiana
March 31, 1972
Photograph by John F. Bjorklund, © 2016, Center for Railroad Photography and Art.
Bjorklund-54-02-15
Source: Flickr / railphotoart
Erie E-units March 29th 1976 Griffth Ind by Mark LLanuza Via Flickr: “It’s March 29th,1976, a few more days left of the Erie Lackawanna. We saw this eastbound going under I-80 and raced to Griffith at high speeds to get this shot of four E-units crossing Cline Ave. My long-time friend Steve Smedley at the far right in the white shirt was lucky enough to get out of the car in time. This was his first time ever shooting on the real main line of the Erie a few days before it all ended.”
Griffith, Indiana
March 29, 1976
Photo by Mark Llanuza
Source: flickr.com
Four EL E8 units rolling in Ohio by G Morris on Flickr.
Erie-Lackawanna freight train headed toward Chicago March 1976 Photo by Gary Morris
Erie Lackawanna - Pullman Jct. by d.w.davidson “A trio of Erie Lackawanna GP35s lead a train north on the C&WI Main Line at Pullman Jct., on May 27, 1974. The BRC switchtender’s cabin that protected the BRC / N&W (NKP) crossing is visible behind.”
Chicago
Photo by George Menge (collection of D.W. Davidson)
Source: Flickr / dwdavidson