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RE: (erielack) August Calendar Pix



"Stuff," huh?  Right.  Ooooog.  8^P

SGL 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Pennisi [mailto:eldispatcher72_@_yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 10:27 PM
> To: Schuyler Larrabee
> Cc: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: RE: (erielack) August Calendar Pix
> 
> All,
>  
> My brother worked Chester, New York during 61 or 62 and had 
> the pleasure of counting heads of cattle that emerged from 
> the bowels of Erie wooden stock cars.  The cars were unloaded 
> at 5:00 am daily.  I don't know who set them out or what 
> train picked them up.  
>  
> He said it really got messy when the cattle vacated the cars. 
>  Stuff was flying everywhere.
>  
> Rich Pennisi 
>  
> 
> 
> Schuyler Larrabee <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 	> The image DOES show that the Erie stock cars made it to at 
> 	> least 1962. When were they sold to the Pennsy?
> 	> - Paul
> 	
> 	
> 	Those stock cars aren't the steel cars, if I remember 
> the photo clearly from work. I don't have it
> 	here at home. I'm also interested that the wood-sided 
> cars lasted that long.
> 	
> 	I don't know the date of the sale to the PRR.
> 	
> 	SGL
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