Gordon, The reason I asked is because I recalled seeing a photo of a manifest pulling onto the Old Main at Salateford Jct. with a block of coal hoppers. Looking at the photo again, it is approx 16 Shawmut cars. I also remembered I have a NY-98 consist from 8/75 with a headend block of MetEd coal: 13 Shawmut cars received at station Q, which I assume is Brockway, and 41 CO/BO/WM cars received at UK. So Chessie did interchange MEtEd coal to EL, at least occasionally, but at Salamanca. Paul B From: Gordon Davids <g.davids_@_verizon.net> Subject: Re: (erielack) Western PA - Brockway Coal Paul - I can't say yes or no, but it would make sense that they would use the unit train rate whenever possible. The Shawmut had a tariff that allowed two mines to each load half of a unit train, but the halves would be combined at or before they reached Brockway. Gordon The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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