Re: (erielack) DL&W info, please

[Dlw1el2_@_aol.com]

In a message dated 2/11/2007 6:45:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
raildata_@_comcast.net writes:

I don't  ever recall seeing any DL&W refreigerator cars with truss rods.  
Reading the diagram from Taber it says the 1908 cars were built with steel  
underframes.






Chuck
Your just not old enough!!!   LOL    Best thing  you heard all day right!
 
 
If we could all go back far enough, I'm sure there were wooden ice cars O  
Plenty on all the roads, and especially the Lackawanna.   
 
I have a photo of 5990 with Fox trucks, and truss rods, built by Keyser  
Valley shops 1908, Inside length 34'.
 
A 1944 listing for ice service shows 5200 to 5415 built 1908 to 1913, but  
these are cars renumbered from Refrigerator cars 6000-6699 having there ice  
bunkers removed for greater ice capacity. These are steel underframe cars. By Jan 
1, 1944 there were  24 of these  cars in service, by 1947 only 2
 
 
The following were Lackawanna Refrigerator cars. 6400-6499  Built 1908
                                                                         
6600-6699   "     1909
                                                                         
6200-6399   "     1912
                                                                         
6000-6199   "     1913
By Jan 1, 1944   77 were still in service, by 1947 only 6 were  left.  Listed 
as steel underframe.  
 
 
The Last Refrigerator cars listed in 1941 are the 1925 built  7000-7299 which 
of course were steel underframe cars  also.   In 1944  298 of these were in 
service, in 1947  295.   All of the above wether stenciled for ice service or  
not could have been used for that purpose. 
 
 
 
Fast forward four years, ( 1947 )  and your 6700-6889  series  cars show.  
Reported as cars purchased second hand and  renumbered.   Sorry, don't know 
there original owner. :(    And they do not appear in the 1952 book.
 
Hope some of this may help.
 
Bob Bahrs
 
                                                           


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