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RE: (erielack) Trios of Erie Airslides

 Paul, which video were you viewing that had these
airslides??

I believe that since the airslides were probably
leased, not owned, they wouldn't have appeared in
the diagram books.

SGL 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: erielack-owner_@_lists.railfan.net 
> [mailto:erielack-owner_@_lists.railfan.net] On
Behalf Of 
> Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 10:44 AM
> To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: (erielack) Trios of Erie Airslides
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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