Re: (erielack) Caboose assignments, and Transfer hacks

["Tom Beckett" <tabeckett_@_stny.rr.com>]

I think the working term was "outhouse on a raft."

TAB
- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>
To: "EL Mailing List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 6:45 AM
Subject: (erielack) Caboose assignments, and Transfer hacks


> Apparently the Port Jervis-Deposit local was a two day turn where the
> conductor actually slept on the hack in Deposit, and this practice 
> continued
> into the 1970's. This would imply an assigned caboose equipped with some
> spartan creature comforts. The "transfer" hacks were supposedly used
> systemwide in yard and local service, although you sure don't see many
> photos of them. The small cabin made them unpopular with crews.
>
> Paul Brezicki 



	The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List
	Sponsored by the ELH&TS
	http://www.elhts.org

------------------------------