NOTE: This message had contained at least one image attachment. To view or download the image(s), click on or cut and paste the following URL into your web browser: http://lists.elhts.org/listthumb.cgi?erielack-07-01-05 train2.jpg (image/jpeg, 1400x951 1307582 bytes) train1.jpg (image/jpeg, 1400x932 1677268 bytes) Jack Bartman was interested in my photo of Conrail stock cars, so if it's not too irrelevant (extension of EL's kosher beef traffic?) I'd like to share it with the group. This is Conrail TV-12M climbing the west slope at Cassandra PA in August 1989. If UP's Hamtrack train had been discontinued by this time, these 2 cars may well have contained the only rail-borne livestock in the entire country that day. (Modelers note the length of the grabiron on the flatcar.) I also came across a photo of a short PIAL (Conway-Altoona), same loc'n same day, somewhat over-powered by no less than 6 of the ex-EL SD45-2's which Conrail used in pairs in the Cresson-based helper pool; that day they put 3 sets on PIAL to get them back to Altoona. Possibly the most SD45-2's ever caught in one frame. Those big 5,000 gal fuel tanks were unique to EL, designed to permit a TOFC train to travel from NY-Chicago without a fuel stop. The extra weight when full may have been useful in helper duty. Paul Brezicki - -------------------- Gayle Shomer Charlotte, NC - -------------------- Gayle Shomer Charlotte, NC The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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