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Re: (erielack) EL and 40' Boxcars

 
In a message dated 3/2/2008 2:20:40 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
paultup_@_comcast.net writes:

All EL  40' boxcars were inherited from the Erie and DL&W. By 1960, I'm  not
even sure if they were building 40' cars  new!




So, the double-door 40-footers that I thought were "new" to  the EL in 
1960-61 and eventually (or quickly) went to the GN were inherited from  which 
railroad? I thought they had been Erie ordered, but maybe  not.
 
In a message dated 3/3/2008 7:57:10 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
paultup_@_alcatel-lucent.com writes:

into the  88000-series. They were quite distinctive with the "XF FOOD
SERVICE ONLY"  logo to the left of the door.

- - Paul
And modeled and painted in HO by Bev Bel a number of years  ago. Or so I 
recall. I use these as converter cars (KD couplers-horn hook) as I  can see them 
easily.  Although I might start equipping some  EL Cool-Whip cars as well. For 
1950s-60s passengers, I use an Athearn  "express-baggage" labeled Erie, and a 
"Route of Phoebe Snow" for earlier era. 
 
In a message dated 3/3/2008 7:59:40 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
paultup_@_alcatel-lucent.com writes:

There  were a few buyers of the 40' "high-cube" cars for  appliance
service.
At least one other was UP. One of these newly painted showed  up on an EL 
drop-off in the Passaic Jct yard in August 1968 in (then) new UP  yellow and 
decals, headed somewhere east, I thought.  I would have to  go and dig out the 
photo (in B&W). But it was delivered by EL and left via  NYSW. 
 
Howard Haines






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