Re: (erielack) DL&W Hopper: Locomotive Sand Service

[Timothy Costello <tgcostello2_@_cox.net>]

At 09:12 AM 4/10/2005, Robert Stafford wrote:
>About 1974 at Bangor we stopped sending our company
>service 40 ft Erie box car to Ohio and begun to send
>it to South Jersey on the CNJ via Lake Jct.

Bob:

Would you elaborate on the equipment used?

If a boxcar, how did you transfer sand to the tower?  Was the sand shipped 
in bulk, or bagged?

Why didn't the EL have a covered hopper assigned for this service?

Thanks
Tim Costello

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