Re: (erielack) DL&W info, please

["Chuck Yungkurth" <raildata_@_comcast.net>]

Schuyler....

I am pretty sure thess DL&E carss are the remanents of the Lackawanna's 
large fleet of old wood reefers used in the large ice traffic out of 
Tobyhanna area. They were painted box car red with only DL&W intials and car 
number plus "assigned to ice service" in about 4" letters to the right of 
the doors.

About 25 years ago I did an article in RMC entitled "Riford Ice Co" that 
freelanced a retail ice business where they sold the ice right off the cars. 
A phto of one of these cars was printed with the article.

Through WW2 around 30 cars of ice a day came into scranton and was 
distributed to ice dealers all up and down the valley, including some 
interchanged to the D&H.  As late as 1950 a ot of ice was used by bars to 
col beer coils in bar rooms along with a lot for the produce distribution 
business centered in Scranton. There were even a few homes still using ice 
boxes. Ice cooled air conditionig was still in use on Pullman cars and many 
caoches on the railroad. There was always a dripping refrigerator car of ice 
standing on one of the stub track at the Scranton depot from which ice was 
taken for the bunkers on passenger cars.

Have no ideas on how much ice went east from the Poconos but it must have 
been substantial.

Hope this is of some help.

Chuck Yungkurth
Boulder CO


- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>
To: <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 12:43 PM
Subject: (erielack) DL&W info, please


> DL&W, VS, Ice, 6700-6889, 33'0", 4'0", 75000, 48
>
> These cars are listed in the 1950 ORER.  Does anybody here have any 
> further information and/or
> photos of these?
>
> TIA
>
> SGL
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