RE: (erielack) Re:The pane of research

["Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>]

Randy, the alleged issue was bystanders bystanding
on a raised platform, i.e. at car floor height.
What gets me about that idea is that the head of
the window in that case is generally about eye
level, so a raised sill still doesn't provide
privacy, the putative reason.  This is perplexing.

I can't think of a place on the DL&W where there
WERE raised platforms. Not Hoboken, not Scranton .
. . Buffalo??

SGL 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: erielack-owner_@_lists.railfan.net 
> [mailto:erielack-owner_@_lists.railfan.net] On
Behalf Of Janet 
> & Randy Brown
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 6:22 PM
> To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: (erielack) Re:The pane of research
> 
> Maybe they raised the windows on the inside,
without changing 
> the outside appearance.  Whike I'm sure they
could do it, 
> playing with the wall of a passenger car is
pretty major work 
> for a few moments of privacy of dubious need.
After all, the 
> floor of the car would be around four feet above
railhead, 
> and the window sills would be three feet above
that.  The 
> table was in the middle of the room; a peeper
would have to 
> be pretty tall.
> 
> Anyway, another unsolved mystery.
> 
> Randy Brown
>
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>     I will keep looking. Perry did say that he
had the 
> windows raised,  mentioning the fine work in the
shop, etc. 
> Perhaps there was an error in context  ("had the
windows 
> raised" may have meant that the windows were
raised).   
> You're  right in that the 99 / Pocono was a
single car, 
> purchased from one of DL&W's  directors during
the Davis 
> years, a man named George F. Baker in 1937.
> 
> 
>                             ....Mike
>     
> 

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