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Re: (erielack) Auto Racks
I am not sure if it is the same topic or info but in late 60's early 70's I was visiting my parents in Elmira and my father my son and I visited the yard - and when they heard my father was in computers, writing the programs to put Westinghouse accounting reports on computer, they told us to wait - and then showed the computer printing out the consist on the westbound train from a detesctor/reader around Chemung. I remember them saying they used to delay as they did it by hand but now the list was printed for them as the trains were approaching. My father was quite impressed.
Jim
- --- On Wed, 8/6/08, Paul Brezicki <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net> wrote:
> From: Paul Brezicki <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Auto Racks
> To: "EL Mailing List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>, "Pat Moore" <pat.moore@att.net>
> Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 6:24 AM
> 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
>
> - -------------- Original message ----------------------
> 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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