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(erielack) Atlas HO 36' Wooden Reefer, Nichol Plate
- Subject: (erielack) Atlas HO 36' Wooden Reefer, Nichol Plate
- From: "Bruce Ipe" <bruceipe_@_gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:16:20 -0500
Does anyone know where I might purchase the 6113, 1 and 2 of the Atlas HO
Wooden Reefer, Nichol Plate. My hobby shop says that they are discontinued.
Bruce Ipe, ELHS, ELHTS and ELDCPS
On 2/25/06, MDelvec952_@_aol.com <MDelvec952@aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 2/25/06 12:17:30 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> wsmith5957_@_hotmail.com writes:
>
> > I found one.......Dalrymple - on the M&E division. When I was 12 yrs
> old,
> my
> > family sent me to a boy scout camp on a NJ farm owned by a family of
> that
> > name. It's not a common name, so it may have been a descendant of the
> named
> > fireman.
>
> If that was in North Jersey, that property is today the site of the County
> College of Morris. On that land besides the farm, were the Dalrymple iron
> mines; I've seen the inclines and filled in shafts from some that are
> still in
> peoples' backyards along Morris Turnpike (south and West of the college
> campus).
> And before WWII the Dalrymples harvested ice from ponds on the property,
> as
> recalled by my late grandparents who remembered the trucks delivering to
> the
> house and Uncle Patsy's general store on Sussex Street in
> Dover. Dalrymple in
> these parts, locally pronounced by them da-RIMple, was an unusual name,
> but not
> that uncommon in that era. When I attended CCM in the early 1980s the
> mansion
> was still on the campus along Center Grove Road.
>
> All the best, ....Mike Del Vecchio
>
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