Lackawanna Railroad mainline west of Portland, PA is operated by the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad to Scranton; then by Norfolk Southern north to Binghamton. Norfolk Southern also operates from Binghamton to Buffalo on the Erie mainline, with the former Chicago mainline that heads west at Hornell operated by the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad. Most trackage in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois is a thing of the past. Operations Noted passenger trains Nos. 1 and 2, Phoebe Snow, New York (literally, Hoboken)-Chicago; discontinued November 27–28, 1966. No. 7, Pacific Express, No. 8 the Atlantic Express; discontinued in August 1965. Nos. 5 and 6, Lake Cities, discontinued January 5–6, 1970. No. 10, New York Mail; No. 15, Owl; discontinued May 23, 1969. Nos. 28/29, Cleveland-Youngstown commuter trains; discontinued January 14, 1977. Though operated by Conrail after April 1976, they were the last remnant of EL passenger trains outside the New York-New Jersey commuter zone. These trains used the same EL locomotives and coaches formerly used on through mainline passenger trains. No. 40, Pocono Express; No. 43, Twilight, trains that made local stops throughout the resort Pocono Mountains region, discontinued Fall, 1965. Nos. 623, Morning Steel King, and 624, Evening Steel King, pool train with NYC, P&LE and B&O railroads, from Toledo to Washington, D.C., via Cleveland, Youngstown and Pittsburgh; discontinued by 1962. Heritage units In September 2015, Norfolk Southern revealed EMD SD45-2 1700, which had been painted back to its as-built Erie Lackawanna color scheme at Chattanooga, Tennessee. This is the second unit from an NS predecessor painted back into its original colors. In 2019, as part of its 40th anniversary, New Jersey Transit wrapped ALP-45DP 4519 and a Bombardier MultiLevel Coach into Erie Lackawanna colors. See also Erie Lackawanna Trail Lackawanna Cut-Off References Further reading * Scanned issues of the Erie, Lackawanna, and Erie-Lackawanna magazines, primarily for employees External links Erie Lackawanna Historical Society Official timetable for Chicago and Buffalo service Erie Lackawanna Dining Car Preservation Society List and Family Trees of North American Railroads The Decline and Fall of EL Passenger Service Erie Lackawanna Railway Company Records at the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library Former Class I railroads in the United States Railroads transferred to Conrail Defunct Illinois railroads Defunct Indiana railroads Defunct New Jersey railroads Defunct New York (state) railroads Defunct Ohio railroads Defunct Pennsylvania railroads Lackawanna Cut-Off Railroads in the Chicago metropolitan area Predecessors