RE: (erielack) RR Employment / EL passenger cars

["Montgomery, Edward T" <Edward.Montgomery_@_fcps.edu>]

It was my understanding that somewhere in the mid 1960s the Erie 10/6 sleepers with Erie President names were sold to CN.  These cars had an interior design that was more favorable than the Lackawanna 10/6's and probably borught a better sale price for the EL.
 
Ed Montgomery
 
 

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From: erielack-owner_@_lists.elhts.org on behalf of Tim
Sent: Fri 8/19/2005 4:19 PM
To: Paul Brezicki; EL Mailing List
Subject: Re: (erielack) RR Employment / EL passenger cars



Paul (and all),

I think the only EL cars that got leased up north were some of the ex-DL&W 10-6 sleeping cars.  As for what is around today, I believe that ELDCPS has the largest "fleet" of ex-EL passenger cars today (counting John Boehner's coach 1318). 

We haven't done this in a while, but perhaps list members could post what long distance passenger cars they know still exist.

Tim Stuy

(I worked in the C&S department at Conrail briefly in the early 1980's).

- -----Original Message-----
From: Paul Brezicki <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>
Sent: Aug 18, 2005 1:06 PM
To: EL Mailing List <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Subject: (erielack) RR Employment (was "caps")

I worked for CN for four summers in the mid-70's (before the business was
assumed by VIA Rail) in the "Customer and Catering" Dept, where I worked the
call board as sleeping car porter, dining car waiter and club car attendant.
A fun job and good people to work with. I may have unwittingly worked on an
ex-EL car once or twice (req'd EL content). Maybe a list member is has
knowledge of the disposition of EL passenger equipment, and if any cars
ended up on CN. There were lots of college students on the rails, as summer
was peak travel time for CN and peak vacation time for the regular
employees. The job helped pay my way through medical school. They wanted ne
to work also during Christmas break, but the prospect of freezing on the
platform at Sioux Lookout wasn't appealing. What I really wanted was a job
in freight operations; I had been offered one the previous summer, but I was
out of town when the call came.    8^(    But the tips were better in the
dining car!



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