RE: (erielack) Speaking of EL RBL's.... (and EL sleepers)

["Paul R. Tupaczewski" <paultup_@_optonline.net>]

Lou,

	It looks like you got one of the former EL orange cars - there's
a photo of CR 359005 in Larry DeYoung's CR Color Guide, which is one of
the EL 5000-5039 series cars.. He doesn't give a number series, but he
also mentioned that CR has 12 similar cars from the Reading (which I
assume would have been thrown into the same number series)

	- Paul

P.S. In the same book, Larry shows a shot of CR #11 (ex-EL/Erie "Spirit
of Youngstown") - he mentiones that on the EL, it later became "EL 5"
and worked the business fleet. There's enough photographic evidence of
this car being part of the business fleet, but none that shows it was
referred to as "EL 5" (the diagram book is the only place this is noted)
- - I have a shot of it in early 1976 with "Spirit of Youngstown"
lettering. Was the "EL 5" number to allow it to be more easily put into
computers if it went off-line?


> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 7:52 PM
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> Subject: Re: (erielack) Speaking of EL RBL's....
> 
> 
> Shot a pix of Conrail reefer # 359021 ( orange sides, red 
> oxide ,brown, ends 
> and roof, black CR lettering. At Waverly, N. Y.   summer '82  
>     not an ex 
> E-L car .....right?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lou
> 

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