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

[Robert Stafford <erielack1_@_yahoo.com>]

- --- Timothy Costello <tgcostello2_@_cox.net> wrote:
> 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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