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Please Note!

News Editor Kevin Burkholder will be on vacation through Monday, May 25. Alex Lang will be editing and posting Eastern Railroad News pages daily through Monday. If you have news, interesting sightings, or other pertinent information, please send it to Alex at jlang@westol.com. Thank you.

Conrail News

The Ringling Brothers' Barnum & Bailey Circus train will be departing Hershey, PA tomorrow for Albany, NY. Check above for full schedule.

There will be a few OCS trips running next week. Check above for schedule. We will be posting consist info shortly.

The former R&N E8A 5898 carries reporting marks SLIM 5898. The unit arrived at Enola yesterday on train ENG-101 at approximately 13:00, and departed later that evening. - Jim Haag, Tim Howerter

Conrail SD70MAC 4142 is out of the back shop at Juniata. 4143 and 4144 are having finishing touches applied. SD70's 2557-2560 are currently under construction at Juniata.

Four Metro-North P32 Dual-Mode units went east on train WOR 301 out of Buffalo NY at 14:00 ET yesterday.  Train consisted of 3 Conrail GP38-2's, the 4 GE's and a welded rail train. - Duncan Richards

TFM GE Update-

The first of TFM's AC4400CW order went south out of Cincinnati this morning (00:30) on NS train 177. Units 2600-2605 were dead-in-tow in full TFM paint. - Roger Rassche

SD70MAC Track

4130	Cleveland, OH	5/22/98	22:14 ET	BUEL-2
4131	Toledo, OH	5/23/98	05:30 ET	COEL-2
4132	Cleveland, OH	5/22/98	22:14 ET	BUEL-2
4133	Toledo, OH	5/23/98	05:30 ET	COEL-2
4134	Cleveland, OH	5/23/98	02:50 ET	SEIN-1
4135	Cleveland, OH	5/23/98	02:50 ET	SEIN-1
4136	Elkhart, IN	5/23/98	03:55 ET	ELIN-2B
4137	Elkhart, IN	5/23/98	03:55 ET	ELIN-2B
4138	Indianapolis-Big 4, IN	5/22/98	20:14 CT	INEL-2B
4139	Indianapolis-Big 4, IN	5/22/98	20:14 CT	INEL-2B
4140	Oak, PA	5/23/98	00:25 ET	UWZ-423
4141	Oak, PA	5/23/98	00:25 ET	UWZ-423

-Railnuts

SD45-2 Track

-Tim Howerter

• EXCURSIONS

  MARC EXCURSION
  MARC will operate a Passenger Special on Monday May 25. Train is to depart Washington, D.C. for Brunswick, MD at 13:35 ET.  Train is scheduled to return at 17:38 ET from Brunswick to D.C. Trip is hosted by several area Historical Groups.

  ERIE STREAMLINER EXCURSION
  On Saturday, September 19 the United R.R. Historical Society will sponsor the ERIE STREAMLINER EXCURSION, operating from Hoboken, N.J. to Suffern, N.Y. and Hackettstown, N.J. The train will feature those classic Erie livery E8s, Nos. 834 and 835. Numerous photo stops will be scheduled. Fare is $37 for adults and $20 for children (11 and under) $20. Parlor car service  w/ beverages and snacks included (limited seating) is available for $79. To order tickets, send a SSAE and check payable to  URHS-NJ, P.O. Box 711, Clark, N.J. 07066-0711. Credit card orders and information phone 732-671-9644 (evening).

STEAMTOWN WEEKEND NOTE: There will be a night photo session at Steamtown National Historic Site on Sunday evening, May 24, 1998, at 8:00 p.m. In honor of Memorial Day weekend, the theme will be Railroads and the Military. Scenes will include BLW 0-6-0 26 switching two PRR boxcars that are being unloaded into military vehicles and soldiers boarding a troop train. There will also be a set-up featuring the Big Boy in a scene based on a 1940s photo of two soldiers giving the "V" victory sign to the engineer.

Tickets are $15 and will be available at the gate. Lumedyne lighting will be provided by Steve Barry, Fred Jones, Frank Etzel, Kermit Geary and Joe Calisi. 

We are readying the new site and preparing for our "magazine" format for a June 1 debut.  We are currently still looking for a few individuals to round out the debut.  We are in need of columnists from Indiana, Illinois, Florida and a few others.  We are also beginning to accept more photos/slides of news events and feature material.  If you are interested in joining the ERN staff or contributing feature material, please contact Kevin Burkholder at ern-kevin@juno.com  or KBurkholder@psghs.edu (NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS) for more details.   

Please check this location daily, as new information will be posted, as it becomes available. If you have news to report or information regarding railroads in the Eastern United States, please send e-mail to J. Alex Lang at jlang@westol.com