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RE: (erielack) August Calendar Pix

Ed Montgomery wrote:

> The ABBA set of FA's pulling out of Hornell got me to 
> thinking that Lionel actually did model the FA pretty 
> accurately for the way they made their models.  The FA was 
> kind of a stubby looking locomotive lacking some of the 
> glamour the PA exhibited.

That's actually quite true re: Lionel's Erie FA (even though they never painted their bay-window (modeled after an Erie C301-class hack) in Erie paint - duh?). Their Erie FA was pretty darn accurate for the time in terms of paint job.


> The picture was pre William White 
> in 1962 with money draining away from the EL everywhere.  The 
> only thing they could afford to do at this time was stick the 
> E-L decal over the Erie diamond.  Thinking back on what I now 
> know, I'm surprised the EL actually made it to the mid 1960s.


The image DOES show that the Erie stock cars made it to at least 1962. When were they sold to the Pennsy?

Ah, I wish I could have been around to hear four 244-powered Alcos storming out of town... <sigh>


	- Paul

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