Re: (erielack) EL Big Hooks

["Todd Stearns" <toddsyr_@_twcny.rr.com>]

And that little industrial railroad, the Brownhoist!

Todd K. Stearns


- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael R. Nickerson" <michael4449_@_yahoo.com>
To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: (erielack) EL Big Hooks


> Hello Everybody!
>
> I can imagine a passenger on another road, while passing by a wreck 
> clean-up and thinking:
> "I don't know where that 'Bucyrus' Railroad runs, but it and the Erie must 
> have a lot of
> wrecks to have so many wreckers.  I've sure seen a lot labeled for them."
>
> Michael R. Nickerson
> Tracy, California, USA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron" <rdukarm_@_roadrunner.com>
> To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5:34 PM
>
>
> Todd,
>
> The Erie always tended to cloak their wreck trains in stealth. On the 
> other
> hand, the DL&W almost had bill-board lettering on theirs. After the 
> merger,
> the Erie outlook was prevalent in the EL years, and even the car numbers 
> got
> smaller.
>
> Ron Dukarm
>
>
> Subject: Re: (erielack) EL Big Hooks
>
>
>> Nice pic, thanks for posting it. Note the lack of reporting marks on the
>> crane and flatcar. From what I've read, some railroads didn't feel it was
>> a good idea to let folks know who's wrecker had to do a cleanup job. Bad
>> publicity and all.
>>
>> Todd K. Stearns
>
>
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