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

I have yet to have a reply, but I've asked Tom and Rich about doing precisely that via the ELHS.  It
depends, to a degree, on how fragile the original is, how it's bound, and so on.  I think this is an
important document and many folks would like to have a copy.  We do have a somewhat similar volume
from the ERIE and it does explain a good deal about how the ERIE operated the railroad.

Schuyler Larrabee

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William E. Botkin [mailto:webotkin_@_ecentral.com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 9:27 AM
> To: EL Mail List
> Subject: 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
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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 title 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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