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Re: (erielack) I stand corrected, Re: little FMs
- Subject: Re: (erielack) I stand corrected, Re: little FMs
- From: Ken <"lackawanna_@_iname.com">
- Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 09:55:21 -0500
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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