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Re: (erielack) I stand corrected, Re: little FMs



Isn't it curious, though, that both the Erie and the Lackawanna would use the 900
series for fairly similar locomotives?


Ken B.

The Jordans wrote:

> Ken-
>
> The DL&W didn't have any passenger RS's.  All passenger RS's were from the
> Erie.  The DL&W contributed RS's to the freight pool as did the Erie.  When
> they were transferred/merged, the DL&W RS's were put into the 1000 series
> of numbers for EL.
> Heres the entire list of RS's and their former and eventual EL numbers.
>
> -Joe Jordan
>
> Passenger RS's
> EL      Erie  DL&W Number       Model
> 900     900                     RS2
> 901     901                     RS2
> 902     902                     RS2
> 903     903                     RS2
> 904     904                     RS2
> 905     905                     RS2
> 906     906                     RS2
> 907     907                     RS2
> 908     908                     RS2
> 909     909                     RS2
> 910     910                     RS2
> 911     911                     RS2
> 912     912                     RS2
> 913     913                     RS2
> 914     914                     RS2
> 915     915                     RS2
> 916     916                     RS3
> 917     917                     RS3
> 918     918                     RS3
> 919     919                     RS3
> 920     920                     RS3
> 921     921                     RS3
> 922     922                     RS3
> 923     923                     RS3
> 924     924                     RS3
> 925     925                     RS3
> 926     926                     RS3
> 927     927                     RS3
> 928     928                     RS3
> 929     929                     RS3
> 930     930                     RS3
> 931     931                     RS3
> 932     932                     RS3
> 933     933                     RS3
> 950     950                     RS2
> 951     951                     RS2
> 952     952                     RS2
> 953     953                     RS2
> 954     954                     RS2
>
> Freight RS's
> EL      Erie  DL&W Number       Model
>
> 1005    1005                    RS3
> 1006    1006                    RS3
> 1007    1007                    RS3
> 1008    1008                    RS3
> 1009    1009                    RS3
> 1010    1010                    RS3
> 1011    1011                    RS3
> 1012    1012                    RS3
> 1013    1013                    RS3
> 1014    1014                    RS3
> 1015    1015                    RS3
> 1016    1016                    RS3
> 1017    1017                    RS3
> 1018    1018                    RS3
> 1019    1019                    RS3
> 1020    1020                    RS3
> 1021    1021                    RS3
> 1022    1022                    RS3
> 1023    1023                    RS3
> 1024    1024                    RS3
> 1025    1025                    RS3
> 1026    1026                    RS3
> 1027    1027                    RS3
> 1028    1028                    RS3
> 1029    1029                    RS3
> 1030    1030                    RS3
> 1031    1031                    RS3
> 1032    1032                    RS3
> 1033    1033                    RS3
> 1034    1034                    RS3
> 1035    1035                    RS3
> 1036    1036                    RS3
> 1037    1037                    RS3
> 1038    1038                    RS3
> 1039            901             RS3
> 1040            902             RS3
> 1041            903             RS3
> 1042            904             RS3
> 1043            905             RS3
> 1044            906             RS3
> 1045            907             RS3
> 1046            908             RS3
> 1047            909             RS3
> 1048            910             RS3
> 1049            911             RS3
> 1050            912             RS3
> 1051            913             RS3
> 1052            914             RS3
> 1053            915             RS3
> 1054            916             RS3
> 1055            917             RS3
> 1056            918             RS3
>
> At 08:40 AM 12/3/99 -0500, Ken wrote:
> >If I remember correctly, the Erie's numbering scheme for RS-2's was 900's
> also.  I
> >distinctly remember seeing 906 and 910 pulling Erie commuter trains.  Was
> this
> >Lackawanna's numbering scheme, too?  How did the two fit together at the
> merger?
> >
> >
> >Ken B.
> >
> >Blue Moon Network Administrator wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 "MDelvec952_@_aol.com" wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Been checking over my notes, and the Lackawanna men during that era
> referred
> >> > to the H16-44s as the "930s."  Similarly, the RS3s were "900s."  The
> little
> >> > FMs moniker must have come later from the modelers, and I shouldn't have
> >> > spoke without checking the notes.  The tradition of referring to
> engines by
> >> > the road number class dates to the steam era, when the Poconos were more
> >> > often known as 1600s and the 4-6-0s were Ten Hundreds.  The Mountains
> were
> >> > fourteen-hundreds and the fourteen-fiftys.
> >>
> >> What were the 4-6-2's, 4-6-4's and 2-8-2's known as? Eleven Hundreds for
> >> the Pacifics, Twelve Hundreds and Twentyone Hundreds for the Alco Mikes and
> >> Eleven-Fifties for the Hudsons?
> >>
> >> I have those as well as Sixteen Hundreds in HO :)
> >>
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