Re: (erielack) logos

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

I have not seen an EL box or gon in years. The last I remember of them was 
about 1992 or so, when Agway in Binghamton would get wheat in box cars. 
There were still a few Erie boxes remaining in this service, and they would 
show up on a regular basis. I'm sure there are still a few repainted EL cars 
out there, but I'll bet the Erie cars are long gone.

Coal hoppers are another story: there seem to be plenty of them around, and 
they turn up rather frequently, often as idler cars surrounding the new NJT 
cars coming from Hornell, and occasionally as a block in ballast service. 
There was a string of them stretched out across the Chenango River bridge in 
Binghamton not long ago-enough so that if you saw them from Court St, you'd 
think it was an EL train. All you could see were EL hoppers. I half expected 
to get out to Jarvis St, look over from Main, and see a pair of SDP 45's 
starting to pull at West BD.....well, this is the home of Rod Serling, it 
ain't the Twilight Zone for nothing!!

Tom B

> I am fully aware that a great amount of PRR, NYC, B&O/C&O, etc rolling 
> stock
> is still riding around with new paint but I'm curious about the stuff that
> ConRail, etc never got around to, or did a bad job painting over.
>
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