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Re: (erielack) Auto Racks

Pat, at least you were aiming at freight cars. Lots of fans behave as though 
there's nothing coupled to the locos :-)   Your recollections jive with my 
consists for the time period. I mentioned yesterday the odd move, 1-2 cars 
daily, to Jackson MS via IHB-ICG (GM&O car). As for the Monon car, that RR 
had been merged into L&N, which received substantial volume from EL at 
Cinti.

While we're on the subject, is anyone aware of any multilevel traffic on LV? 
One of the annual reports from the 60's talks about an unloading facility on 
Johnson Ave in Jersey City, but I've never seen a photo of an LV train with 
an autorack.

Dave, my data comes from a large stack of EL consists from 1975-76; if I'm 
not mistaken, these computer-generated reports replaced the wheel reports 
sometime in the 1968-72 period. The 3 Pauls (myself, Paul T and Paul 
Cappelloni) are working on a project to make them available to all ELHS 
members. To my knowledge, there are no consists in the archives.

Paul B

Hi Dave,

"Back in the day", I was only ten or eleven.  I got my first camera at 
Christmas 1974, so my EL pictures from that era are both limited and crappy. 
I only took pictures of freight cars that I thought were unusual.  That 
said, I got a picture of a Monon auto rack and a GM&O auto rack going 
through Addison NY.  A few of my other pictures have auto racks right behind 
the power or next to the caboose (my most photographed subjects), so I have 
other pictures that include N&W auto racks.

- - -pat moore

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From: "David Benn" <Intermodalbenn_@_cox.net>
>
> Interesting discussion for my modeling.  Thanks for sharing so much info.
> Question though, did any of those discussing this with such knowledge
> photograph these autoracks, or have wheel reports of trains with autoparts
> boxcars for Mahwah, and if so, where in the archives can one find them?
>
> Dave Benn
> Virginia Beach
 


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