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Re: (erielack) Caption?...NOW DL&W Mu cars
Sorry Chuck your only Patially correct, the subscription Parlors and
the "low Roof Trailers" that started out as Engine haul coaches (they
were built around 1925) and were planned to become MUs.... also the
DL&W converted many Boonton Coaches and some combines ( the RPO mail
Combines were all high roof "boonton fleet") into the "High Roof" trailers
Charles_Walsh_@_Berlex.com wrote:
>Steve,
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>I think you're referring to the Boonton Line (so-called Wyatt Earp) cars.
>The 141 or so cars that were subsequently matched up with power cars were
>closed vestibule. I believe that the only cars used with the MUs that
>dated from the WWI era were the private subscription (Smith & Binney?)
>cars.
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>Chuck
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> 10/12/2005 01:57 To: Charles_Walsh_@_berlex.com
> PM cc: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> erielack-owner_@_lists.elhts.org
> gkazin_@_yahoo.com
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>Chuck,
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>Yup, hard to imagine the cars were pulled by steam engines before 1930....
>Infact most of the high roof trailer cars were built with open vestibules
>in 1917, so they were pulled by steam for almost 14 years!!!
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