Re: (erielack) Life-Like Erie PA's in black/yellow

["Chris Thurner" <"cthurner_@_adelphia.net">]

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> From: Gripp, William  [NCS] <"WGRIPP_@_NCSUS.JNJ.COM">
> To: 'Chris Thurner' <"cthurner_@_adelphia.net">
> Subject: RE: (erielack) Life-Like Erie PA's in black/yellow
> Date: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 3:04 PM
> 
> 
> > I see Life-Like announced an EL scheme for September delivery ( with a
> > surprising
> > duplication of #857, which will make it hard to run a early merger
> > lashup
> > of the EL and Erie black schemes together!).  I'll have to get my
> > order for
> > the GYM EL's in soon.
> > 
> Where did you see this?  Any other eastern roads such as LV or another
> NH scheme included?

Bill:

I saw the announcment in the latest ELHS newletter and in a recently mailed
Express Station Hobbies flyer I received last week
Yes, let's keep our fingers crossed for the Erie / EL RS-2's (hopefully
both).

> 
> 
> > How about a DLW Trainmaster, or better yet an EL SDP45 or an SD45-2 in
> > the
> > near future?  Unfortuneatly, the potential market for these units
> > (except
> > possibly the Trainmaster) will be somewhat small and may not justify a
> > production run for them due to the extremely limited acceptance by the
> > prototype when the units were introduced.
> > 
> The H-24-66 is likely the only really viable choice among those.  I'd
> get some CNJs, DL&Ws,
> and ELs myself.  A nice H-15/16-44 would be welcome as well.  We can
> always hope that Kato
> will do an ERIE and/or EL RS2 on the next run.
> 
> Bill

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