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Re: (erielack) RE: DL&W Arranged Services booklet

Tom and list,

I would love to get a copy of this publication.  Is this something that 
could be reproduced for sale by the ELHS or the ELDCPS?

Bill Botkin
Centennial, CO

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From: "Tom Schmieder" <dlw_fan_@_hotmail.com>
To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 10:33 AM
Subject: (erielack) RE: DL&W Arranged Services booklet


>
> I don't know if anyone else has ever come across this book, but I recently 
> obtained a copy.  It's about the size of an employee timetable and is 
> titled, "Lackawanna Railroad Arranged Services" on the cover and "Freight 
> Train Schedules and Classifications" on the inside tltle page.  The book 
> is dated 9/26/54.  It has 35 pages describing freight service and 27 pages 
> describing passenger service.
>
>     It describes all regularly scheduled freight trains, their times at 
> each major city, it's connections at each end of the trip with other 
> railroads with train symbols and describes classification of the train. 
> The classification description can include types of cars (refrigerator, 
> box, empties) and blocking by station in the consist.  It also notes which 
> trains handle bananas out of Hoboken (which seems to be a major commodity 
> for many of the trains).  The booklet then goes into describing by each 
> station which trains provide service to them and then lists all of the 
> DL&W connections with other RR's.
>
>     It then goes into passenger train descriptions and lists consists of 
> all operating passenger trains.  It also lists the sleeping cars in 
> service as well as RPO cars.  It goes on to describe dining cars, 
> buffet-lounge cars, baggage-mail cars and milk cars.  It describes nominal 
> features of each such as paint type (G-green or S-striped), seating 
> capacities, type of AC (M-EM-ICE), lavatories, and type of trucks.
>
>     This book appears to be the playbook to be used by Superintendents, 
> Trainmasters, Chief Train Dispatchers, General Yardmasters, Conductors and 
> other employees to assemble and forward equipment and trains in an 
> efficient manner.  It's brimming with detail and will take me some time to 
> digest all of the information.  Just wondering if anyone else is familiar 
> with it.
>
>
>
> Tom Schmieder
>
>
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