Short Erie Railroad passenger train. Middletown New York. 1958.

The Erie Railroad, was a regional railroad that had served Chicago and points east prior to 1960.

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A short local Erie Railroad passenger train being headed up by an Alco model P.A 2 cab unit diesel electric locomotive, pulls in to the Middletown New York train station on a lovely sunny day way back in 1958.

In 1960, the Erie Railroad and the delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad merged and became the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. By the early 1970's, the Erie Lackawanna was bankrupt, and was one of six bankrupt northeastern United States railroads that the govorment bailed out financially and created Conrail with in April of 1976.