@Mark Boyce. Thanks, Mark. Yes, I grew up in Erie. Tracks crisscrossed the city at a number of different places. The house we grew up in was only a couple of blocks from one set of tracks. I remember when I would hear the horns blowing, I would always run down to watch them pass. I still have a few flattened coins that we put on the rails. We could never find the nickels …. I always wondered why that was. Maybe they stuck to the wheels? Ha ha
Erie isn’t the huge manufacturing location it once was but in the day there was Hammermill Paper (became International paper before they closed) , GE locomotive which still might be there in a reduced capacity, Bucyrus Erie, Lord Corp, Zurn and many others that no longer exist.
