Just a hunch on my part, but the train should be ELOI, which was Conrail's "franchise run" on the portion of the former Erie/EL between Youngstown and Oak Island NJ. For a while, it left the old Erie in favor of the Lehigh Valley from Waverly NY to Oak Island. Norfolk Southern and WNY&P use this line for the same reason, to ease congestion on their primary routes to Metro New York.
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If by "Metro New York" you mean New York City, NS doesn't use this route (or WNY&P haulage, run-through or other 'rights' they might have) or for that matter, the rest of the former Erie "southern tier" route for any NYC traffic at all. The portion east of Binghamton was leased to another Delaware Otsego short line and now sees essentially nothing but Susquehanna freights three times a week in each direction barring detours or "special" moves.
For NS, the ex-Erie is just their route to compete for some New England traffic these days via the former D&H through Binghamton; the line no longer sees any NYC are traffic at all. Despite the fact that they talked up the notion of using the former Erie for a significant amount of NYC area container traffic at the time the Conrail "split" was being negotiated, nothing ever came of it.
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