Hi folks, After more video viewing last night, I saw two (possibly three, too blurry to tell) freights on the "West End" in Erie years that had batches of three Erie single-bay Airslide cars. Since it seems these cars are pretty elusive to find, photographically, would anyone happen to know what service they were in? I've only ever seen images of them in groups of three - usually never singly. Who was the primary customer using these? Also, does anyone know the deal with EL's single-bay Airslides? Were these the ex-Erie cars? I don't think they were, since the Erie cars - I thought - went back to GACX. The EL cars had EL reporting marks, and in at least one photo I've seen the EL cars had "INTERNATIONAL MULTIFOODS" lettering along the top of the car. There's a shot of this scheme in the "Classic Freight Cars - Covered Hoppers" book by H&M Publications, and if you look in EL In Color., Vol. 3 (The East End) by Larry De Young, there's a photo of a train entering Taylor Yard. If you look REALLY carefully, there's at least one EL reporting mark Airslide behind the motive power. These cars were pretty elusive - they weren't in the diagram book (though I have a diagram book addendum from 4/1/76 that shows what cars did NOT make it into CR, and those Airslides were some of them - they went to the D&H). Any clues? - Paul Paul R. Tupaczewski_______________________ Lucent Technologies Mobility Solutions Phone: 973-386-4966 MASD IMS/CDMA Trials and Fax: 973-386-4147 Demonstrations Group 67 Whippany Road, Room 15D-116 Whippany, NJ 07981 _______________________________________________ ------------------------------
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