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RE: (erielack) FW: Press Release, Caboose Acquired
1070???!!! Why, we're older than the Magna Carta! :)
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:25:32 -0400, "Montgomery, Edward T"
<Edward.Montgomery_@_fcps.edu> said:
> You get the feeling you're aging when you hear "Conrail Historical
> Society" and an EL caboose that was built in the 1070s. That doesn't
> seem so long ago for me. Time flies!
>
> Ed Montgomery
>
>
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> An former EL caboose is saved! News from the Conrail Historical Society
> via
> Carl Perelman...
>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 4:07 PM
> Subject: Press Release, Caboose Acquired
>
> The Conrail Historical Society, Inc. finally acquired Conrail N7E bay
> window
> caboose 21165 on April 16, 2007. This caboose was among twenty of the
> last
> cabooses built new for the Erie Lackawanna railroad in November 1970 by
> the
> International Car Company.
>
> After nearly three years of work the acquisition effort finally became a
> reality. During what local news channels reported as the worst storm ever
> in
> recorded history for New York, dumping as much as 9 1/2" of rain over
> Brooklyn, Manhattan and parts of Long Island, the caboose was succesfully
> loaded onto a gooseneck trailer for shipment to the Middletown &
> Hummelstown
> Railroad in Middletown, PA where the caboose will be restored and used in
> passenger train operations.
>
> CRHS members Ryan Emrick, Brock Kerchner, JB Kerr, Kris Klemick, Mike and
> Russ Swinnerton were part of the "21165 Moving Team". Their efforts, as
> well
> as all those who helped make the first monumental chapter in the history
> of
> the CRHS a success are well represented by the acquisition of the 21165.
>
> Photos taken by CRHS President Kristopher Klemick.
>
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