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RE: (erielack) JULY CALENDAR PICTURE

I would guess that 26 was, at least in earlier times, a train that accommodated town-to-town trips,
not necessarily town-to-Binghamton for transfer trips.  Literally, an "accommodation" train.

The other thing that occurred to me, besides sharing Paul's feeling about the overgrown platform, is
that it is a perfect example of the "Pike sized passenger train" that Model Railroader yaks about
from time to time.



SGL
La vita e breve, mangiate prima il dolce! 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Montgomery, Edward T [mailto:Edward.Montgomery_@_fcps.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 8:46 PM
> To: erielack_@_lists.elhts.org
> Subject: (erielack) JULY CALENDAR PICTURE
> 
> Not much has been said about the the July picture.  It is 
> interesting.  It is one of the few shots I have ever seen of 
> an uninteruppted Erie passenger consist.  All Green/Gray and 
> Green from PA through.  Not hard to do when there are only 
> three cars.  The calendar says this is train 26 and it 
> probably is considering the baggage car.  It could have been 
> a PJ train carrying bulk mail.  I'm not sure how mail was 
> handled on that line.  If it is 26, EL is not very concerned 
> about accomodating passengers.  Why not at least use one of 
> the Erie thru-line reclining seat coaches?  The Stillwells 
> were airconditioned but the seats weren't very good for long 
> trips.  It would have been hard to try and sleep in them.  I 
> wonder how many passengers actually transferred to 26 at 
> Binghamton.  26 was probably just another commuter train 
> picking up passengers at Port Jervis and Middletown for a 
> quick trip to Hoboken.
>  
> Ed Montgomery
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