From its number -- probably a passenger/baggage combine. Wood, of course.
Randy Brown
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A Card Waybill is an abbreviated form of a waybill, the instructions and authority for a conductor to move a car or a freight shipment. In this case it looks like an Erie official with initials AEC ("Order AEC") is sending Car 815 from Jersey City to Great Notch for Conductor J. S. Udall to use on the Caldwell Branch. It seems to have been billed to move in train 519, but they might have managed to get it on the earlier train 517. Both of those trains were Greenwood Lake Division passenger trains. I don't have a reference to show the car type of Erie 815, but I would suggest looking in a roster of coaches or baggage cars.
Gordon Davids
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Hi All,
I was wondering if the Caldwell Branch Hike (Discovery Day) event was still taking place? Also to stir some intrest I will submit this Erie Railroad waybill, it dates from March 8, 1906. for a delivery on the line almost 100 years ago! Can anyone identify who the Consignee is? What was Train 519, and what kind of freight car was ERIE 815?
On the back of the waybill it's marked "Left Jersey City 3/8 2:32 pm" and "Arrived Great Notch 3/8 3:17 pm" the Train is marked as "517".
Todd (ELHS 1318)
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