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RE: (erielack) EL pushers

Mike,

These are D&H cars loaded with ilmenite off the D&H North Creek branch in 
the Adirondack region of NY state. The ilmenite originated at National Lead 
Industries mine at Tahawus; acc to my SPV atlas, the NLI Tahawus-North Creek 
line was operated by D&H. Ilmenite ore is a source for titanium, used for 
steel hardening. The most direct route would have been 
D&H-Dupont-LV-Bethlehem (assuming the ore was consigned to Beth Steel), but 
in the regulated era, circuitous routings were more common since the rate 
was the same. The move probably didn't involve LV, since after CNJ quit PA, 
either it or RDG retained TR from P'bug to Bethlehem and Allentown over LV. 
RDG continued to have access to Beth Steel, and CNJ-RDG continued to operate 
Jersey City-Harrisburg (Rutherford) trains. So the ilmenite cars would be 
setoff at LakeJct and forwarded to Bethlehem by JH-1 or JH-7. Perhaps a 
Lister who also belongs to the Anthracite RR group can provide more details. 
Prior to 1972 (and assuming the traffic existed then), the routing would 
have been D&H-W Barre-CNJ-Bethlehem.

Another ilmenite move was D&H-Bingo-EL-Y'town-P&LE-Mckees Rocks. One of 
these cars ended up on Pete Leishman's Milford & Bennington. There was some 
problem with the car getting stuck on the M&B for an extended period and D&H 
refusing to pay per diem. After litigation, ownership of the car was 
transferred to the M&B in lieu of the accumulated per diem. It helped make 
for an odd-looking stone train, tacked onto a string of ex-CN taconite CH's.

Paul B

From: Michael DeCarlo <mikedc3_@_optonline.net>
Subject: RE: RE: (erielack) EL pushers

Does anyone have any more info on these loads, like where they originated?
It seems like a strange routing if they were going to Bethlehem PA. I'm
wondering why they didn't go the LV in Binghamton, instead of EL\CNJ\LV.
Could it be because these cars once moved from Scranton to Easton on the
CNJ?
 


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