RE: (erielack) Re: (LVRR) LVRR Divisions

["Tupaczewski, Paul R \(Paul\)" <"paultup_@_lucent.com">]

Wasn't the BCK entirely, or almost entirely, Alco S2's?

	- Paul


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schuyler G Larrabee [mailto:"sgl2_@_ix.netcom.com"]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 11:58 PM
> To: Erielack
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Re: (LVRR) LVRR Divisions
> 
> 
> I'd be curious as to just what type those 21 engines were . . 
> . I'm betting
> a bunch of switchers.
> 
> SGL
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Blue Moon Network Administrator <"root_@_net.bluemoon.net">
> To: Schuyler G Larrabee <"sgl2_@_ix.netcom.com">
> Cc: <"lehighvalleyrr_@_lists.railfan.net">; <>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 11:43 PM
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Re: (LVRR) LVRR Divisions
> 
> 
> > On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Schuyler G Larrabee wrote:
> >
> > > > > Buffalo Creek- 21 locomotives
> > > >
> > > > That's really interesting.
> > >
> > > Said Henry Priebe.
> > >
> > > Yes it is, I though that the BCK stuff was shared 50/50 
> between the Erie
> and
> > > the LV.  Forty two locos does seem like a lot, but then I 
> remember from
> > > reading some of the great history of Buffalo (to bad it 
> seems to be
> mostly
> > > past) that there was a LOT of industry there.  Maybe 
> there was enough to
> > > justify that stud of power.
> >
> > There was a huge amount of industry, grain and coal 
> shipping going on
> around
> > the BCK's domain. The more I have thought about it the more 
> possible it
> seems
> > that they had 40+ locos in the early part of the century. I 
> think most
> people
> > have seen the BCK boxcars with the flour sack heralds on 
> them, they were
> there
> > for a reason, Buffalo in the earlier part of the century 
> was the world's
> > largest grain center and the BCK was smack dab in the 
> middle of all the
> > elevators!
> >
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