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(erielack) EL baggage cars off their home rails

At 05:33 06-11-2007, you wrote:
>Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 07:06:02 -0500
>From: "Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>
>Subject: Re: (erielack) EL baggage cars off their home rails
>
>I'm a little surprised about this connection, since it involved a transfer
>from Babcock St to Central Terminal and an 18-hour layover. 371-322 was the
>"Ontarian", connecting at Buffalo with NYC's #57, the Cleveland Limited.
>Eastbound counterpart was 321-376, connecting with #16, the Ohio State
>Limited. This was the sole remaining NY-Toronto overnight service after the
>LV-CN Maple Leaf was DC'd in 1961. Around 1970, this became a daytime run
>with an RDC on the Toronto-Buffalo portion (RDC's were popular with both
>Canadian transcons). Amazingly, this service survived until the early 80's
>when it was DC'd in favor of an Amfleet consist via CN, which reprised the
>Maple Leaf name. TH&B's mainline was Hamilton-Welland Ont, and it was
>jointly owned by NYC/PC and CP. In the 1980's it became wholly a CP property
>when CR divested itself of ex-NYC Ontario lines. I fondly recall trio's of
>cream-and-brown GP7's coming through Toronto with the "Starlight" and
>"Kinnear". Paul, you'll be interested to know these trains operated in and
>out of Agincourt yard.
>
>Paul B


That baggage car could have been bouncing around the NYC for a while 
and ended up going to Toronto.

In the early 1960's there were several overnight NYC-Toronto trains 
on the Central altho the 371-376 pair were the primary one.  By the 
end of the Central, 371-376 were the survivors.

Go back far enough and you'll have thru Cleveland-Toronto, 
Pittsburgh-Toronto, Boston-Toronto sleepers on the Central.

And I too remember trios of brown and cream.




Dale 


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