VINTAGE 1960-1976 ERIE LACKAWANNA RAILWAY RAILROAD TRAIN COFFEE MUG

Description

This is a Vintage ( 1960-1976) ERIE LACKAWANNA RAILWAY mug. It is off white with yellow and brown lettering. Please see photos as they serve as part of the description. Thanks for taking a look!
The Erie Lackawanna Railway (reporting mark EL), known as the Erie Lackawanna Railroad until 1968, was formed from the 1960 merger of the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. The official motto of the line was "The Friendly Service Route".
Like many railroads in the northeast already financially vulnerable from the expanding U.S. Interstate Highway System, the line was severely weakened fiscally by the extent, duration and record flood levels due to Hurricane Agnes in 1972. It would never recover, and most of the corporation's holdings were subsumed into the federal rescue purchases creating Conrail in 1976, ending its days as an independent operating railroad company.