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RE: (erielack) Christmas ornament

> A few weeks ago there was some discussion about making Erie 
> Lackawanna Christmas ornaments. It mainly concerned painting 
> N-scale locomotives with EL livery. While shopping this 
> weekend I noticed  a Hallmark miniature ornament in the 
> store. It has 2 small Lionel cars (flat car with automobiles 
> and a red caboose). Is that an Erie Lackawanna caboose? 
> Unfortunately, they only had one left (the display) and the 
> small "diamond" in the center of the caboose was so muddled 
> as to make Paul just sit down and cry.


The Lionel bay-window caboose was indeed modeled after an Erie C301-C350
series bay-window! And it's pretty accurate, actually!

Good spot... I'll have to check out local Hallmark store for this!

	- Paul

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