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Re: (erielack) EL "freight" scheme [was FTSB in RMC]

My personal opinion, and as you know are like bellybuttons, was that the Lackawanna MYG was better looking for passenger service than the Erie's 2 tone green. I do like, however the few F-units in BY that were retrofitted with the broken "E" on the nose with the Erie wings for freight.





Fred Stratton

MP. 7.2 NS Asheville line

Salisbury, NC


From: "Bill Weibel" <weib3_@_centurytel.net>
Reply-To: "Bill Weibel" <weib3_@_centurytel.net>
To: "Janet & Randy Brown" <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>, <erielack@lists.railfan.net>
Subject: Re: (erielack) EL "freight" scheme [was FTSB in RMC]
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:19:47 -0600
>I think I'm not alone in the thought that since Black & Yellow was 
>the corporate freight scheme, the units shown in either DLW freight 
>scheme or GMY lettered EL were aberations
>
>1-They simply removed the nose decal, and replaced it and 
>re-letterred over the Lackawanna as simply as new numbers were 
>placed on units.
>
>2-Another theory is the units were re-painted maybe in the case of 
>the 601 set at Scranton, as They were just too pristine and new 
>looking to be 
re lettered .
>
>Of course all this is lost to history, I know that there wasn't too 
>many units involved 2 or 3 trainmasters had diamonds and 
>erie-lackawanna in serif with hyphen on sides, an F3 in Freight 
>Stripes, maybe 6 FTs I know of 3 A's and 2 B's I photographed, and a 
>couple more F's wre involved. Possibly some were 8400s which would 
>be passenger power anyway and stayed GMY except one I know was 
>inexplicably painted Black yellow and stayed that way into 
>retirement. It was a phase 1 unit I remember.
>
>No definitive answers, I like to think the Lackawanna Painters at 
>Scranton refused to "tow the line" ...
>
>Bill
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Janet & Randy Brown" 
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>Subject: (erielack) EL "freight" scheme [was FTSB in RMC]
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>
>>Early in EL, as we know, they used a freight paint scheme in black 
>>and yellow developed from the Erie. Did ALL pre-merge freight 
>>units, both Erie and DL&W, get this treatment? Or did some (maybe 
>>even most) Lackawanna locomotives simply slide over from DL&W gmy 
>>to EL gmy?
>>
>>How long did EL B/Y last?
>>
>>I hate to ask which units wore it -- and when.
>>
>>Randy Brown
>>--------------------------------------------------------------
>>I don't have the numbers handy but I think 6011,6012,6022 ,made it 
>>into EL GMY, could have been DL&W re-paint with EL diamond and 

>>letter added or full repaint, all I know is I saw them in Scranton 
>>with A-B-B with last A unmatched in DL&W freight scheme. Have a 
>>slide here somewhere taken I think on a summer sunday in 61 or 62
>>
>>Bill
>>
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