RE: (erielack) Re: UPS Trailers

["Fred Stratton" <erief7_@_msn.com>]

Paul is right. My late DAD was Eastbound Clerk in Croxton and he would tell me how 2nd/NY 100 was almost a dedicated UPS train whereas NY100 was not. To substantiate this, look at many a pictures of NY100 and you can see. Good point Paul.





Fred Stratton

MP. 7.2 NS Asheville line

Salisbury, NC


From: "Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>
Reply-To: "Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>
To: "EL Mailing List" <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>, "Paul Tupaczewski" <paultup@comcast.net>
Subject: (erielack) Re: UPS Trailers
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 07:24:53 -0400
>Actually the 85' cars were common throughout the 70's, although after 1964 all the builders switched to an 89-90' deck. So any of these flats would work; you could even work in a few single-hitch cars of 50-53' length owned by EL or Trailer Train. The Accurail cars are indeed a scale 6" too wide, which of course is barely noticable; they have a few other minor deficiencies which I discussed a couple of months ago. Hopefully the upcoming Walthers release will be more accurate than Accurail's. If you can find some of the Walthers 89' channel-side cars, 
they'd be fine also.
>
>A minor point here: NY-100 was not a UPS schedule, although it often carried one or two empty UPS trailers back to Croxton (UPS traffic was primarily wb). The primary UPS trains were Second/NY-100, ACX-99 and CX-99.
>
>Paul B
>
>From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>
>Subject: RE: (erielack) UPS Trailors
>
> > What platform is available that is correct or mostly correct
> > for an NY-100
> > with all those UPS trailors?
> >
> > Dale
>
>
>Dale,
>
>What do you mean by "platform?" A piggyback flat car?
>
>Currently, the closest correct thing are the 89' piggyback flats from Accurail. Apparently, these are a few scale inches too wide, but it's not too noticable.
>
>Walthers has announced their own 89' 
piggyback flats, of a similar style to Accurail's (I assume they'll be the correct width?)
>
>Athearn has re-released its 85' "all-purpose" piggyback flat, which will also work with the UPS trailers they make, but the 85' cars were far less common on these trains.
>
>- Paul
>
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